···@ipvaim.unipv.it (Alberto Riva) wrote:
>In article <·············@cis.ufl.edu> John Buckner <····@cis.ufl.edu> writes:
>Using a Lisp program as a CGI script is surely possible,
>but you may suffer from performance problems since you have to start
>up the whole Lisp environment every time.
SIOD starts up in about 0.050 seconds on the machines I've been using it on.
In the same range of startup overhead as generally accepted CGI scripting languages
such as Perl.
Still, it is better to link the interpreter in with the HTTPD.
But better still to run native compiled programs when efficiency is a concern.
-gjc
ftp://ftp.std.com/pub/gjc/siod.html