[cgiapp] How to lazy-load runmodes

[gvim]

On 24/05/2011 06:23, Joshua Miller wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:15 PM, gvim<gvimrc at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
> "isn't there a huge startup penalty..." Not if you're using FastCGI,
> PSGI + something like FastCGI or mod_perl, mod_perl, Starman or any
> other persistent perl thing. In those cases, it loads and compiles
> once, and subsequent hits go to the compiled perl bytecode (more or
> less). It's actually better and faster to have everything loaded at
> first in these, so that memory is shared (COW for mod_perl under
> linux). Under plain old bare-bones CGI, yes, there is a startup
> penalty on every hit.
>

Whilst a FastCGI solution improves startup time it doesn't address the memory footprint. I'm comparing deploying an app with CGI::Application vs. CGI with separate Perl scripts on a VM with a modest amount of mempory. From the what I'm learning about CGI::Application it seems that the memory footprint will skyrocket if your codebase has, say, 15 Perl scripts each containing over 300 lines of code as you now have 15 x 300 lines of code running instead of 300, no?

gvim