The answer is a) what are you trying to do and b) it depends. CGI is actually pretty fast. UNIXes used to be slow with fork/exec, but now they are pretty snappy. In addition, depending on your environment, you may be using the CGI "environment" without the overhead.
We need more info. Jon On 8 Jul 2003, Rick Warner wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:23, Ricardo Striquer Soares wrote: > > Hi there ... > > > > I was thinking in port my PHP applications to a C/CGI, although I hear > > that the C/CGI takes too much of the CPU, is that true? So is that true > > that the PHP is easier them CGI in this context? > > > > thanks > > You might get more/better responses if you posted to a web-centric > or PHP centric list. > > The main reason folks I know use PHP is that it is an in-line embedded > scripting language for HTML. In other words, you PHP code is embedded > in the middle of your HTML. If you are running an integrated PHP > processor, e.g., mod_php with Apache (as I assume most folks using > Linux would do) then the code is interpreted and run within the context > of the web server. CGI, whether it is C, Perl, or PHP running as CGI > (most common in a Windows/IIS environment), needs an external process > to be fired off to interpret or run the application. This incurs > additional overhead, context switches, and so on. In the end, with > PHP you can create dynamic pages based upon code embedded in the page > that is interpreted within the context of the web server at run time. > > So the question becomes, why do you want to run a CGI model? There are > reasons one would choose to do so, but far fewer reasons than there were > years ago in the days before PHP and other embedded scripting languages. > > - rick warner > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
