Re: 50% of the speed of the Cobalt Raq3 box:-(

    Mr. Bennett,

> I run this pearl script on two servers, one a 300 mhz G3 Mac (140
> Meg'ish  Ram) and the other a Cobalt Raq3 (150 mhz with 16 meg RAM!),
> the Cobalt server was the first to have the script installed on it
> and golly, it runs real fast and with database (s) of over 3000-5000
> records (OK tiny to most of you!) it runs really quite well. This
> prompted me to run the script on the Mac + WebTen, with the view to
> replacing the filemaker side of the box......oh dear, it runs fine
> but is about 50% of the speed of the Raq3 box.
>
> Q. Can I make a pearl script go faster?
>
> If just use the WebTen box for this ONLY (ie this would be the ONLY
> function of the Box) how can I set it to go as fast as it can when
> running the script, to hell with any other function...can I play with
> nice values or some such ?
    Try FastCGI - it runs the script continually in the background,
eliminating compilation time.  (Read the appropriate section in the WT
manual.

> What is it about the Mac Box+WebTen that makes a script so much slower?
    Also, remember that WebTen is an application, and Perl under a Raq is a
system library/built-in.  Thus, you cannot expect WT to provide incredible
performance for Perl scripts...


                            Sincerely,

                            Robert Vogt IV
                            CEO
                            ArborHost

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