From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-12-02T09:02:09+09:00
Subject: Re: How's the speed?

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Leif K-Brooks wrote:

> Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 20:31:44 GMT
> From: Leif K-Brooks <eurleif@ecritters.biz>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> Subject: How's the speed?
> 
> I'm considering doing a large web-based project in Ruby (mod_ruby) instead
> of PHP. How would the speed of mod_ruby using the cgi library compare to the
> speed of PHP?

i use fastcgi and ruby.  the speed is insane.  if you do not need to get at
the internals of apache i would reccomend fastcgi.  you get alot of stuff for
free, like database connection pooling, too.

-a
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