[Catalyst] New engine: HTTP::Prefork

[Andy Grundman]

On Apr 6, 2008, at 3:36 AM, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
>> little bit.  I was disappointed in the POE engine and came to the
>> conclusion that POE, while tons of fun to use, is not the right
>
> Just when POE went 1.0! Not fair!!

POE rocks, but a single process just doesn't work for Catalyst,  
because the entire time your application code is running, the process  
is blocked.  Multiple processes is really the only way to go for a web  
server.  It may be possible to do some crazy things with something  
like Coro but at a severe cost to performance.

>> It's suitable for use as a fast development server with the same -r
>> restart support as the HTTP and POE engines, and should also be
>> suitable as a production-quality server (although it *is* still
>> version 0.01 :)
>
> Sounds that with the XS modules it really should be as fast as the  
> mod_perl or
> fastcgi servers ?


I've been intending to benchmark the various engines and haven't  
gotten around to it yet.  If anyone wants to help out in that regard  
it would be appreciated. :)  I was able to get up to around 400  
requests/second out of Prefork on my older Macbook Pro.