Re: FAQ 3.19 How can I make my CGI script more efficient?

Purl Gurl wrote: 
Brian Wakem wrote:

This is absolute pish-posh.  Apache running all bell and whistles (SSI etc)
will serve static pages *at least* 100 times faster than mod_cgi served
pages, and twice as fast as mod_perl served pages.


If this is not the case on your machine then you have serious config
problems.

I have done much benchmarking on these issues. 

Honestly and truly? I believe you are full of mule manure.

URL measured:   http://www.purlgurl.net/~callgirl/index.cgi
  Page speed:   1.89 sec    (see details below)
  Compare to:   2.49 sec    (average speed of all our benchmarks)
[...] 
URL measured:   http://www.purlgurl.net/~godzilla/index.html
  Page speed:   6.50 sec    (see details below)
  Compare to:   2.49 sec    (average speed of all our benchmarks)

[...]

Totally meaningless, since we don't know how you configured your Apache server. For example, did you know that it's possible to give your CGI scripts a file extension of .html, and your static HTML with a file extension of .cgi? Perhaps you could show us the source of the CGI script, whichever file it is, so someone could test them for you.

Frodo, however, doesn't believe that you'd think of doing that. More likely, he says, is that you have somehow disabled in-memory caching for HTML files, while your CGI files stay resident in memory. He suggests that showing us your http.conf file would likely be both informative and amusing.
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