[Xitami] Xitami/5 - new project announcement

[Hogan]

Begining with version 2.2a, Xitami includes a persistent CGI extension 
called LRWP, (which stands for Long Running Web Process.) LRWP is 
written as a WSX agent which implements a simple protocol for 
communicating with external processes called Peers. The peer process 
simply waits for the requests to come from Xitami and then responds with 
a valid http response, just like a CGI program. The main difference is 
that like other persistent CGI solutions, the LRWP peer waits around for 
another HTTP request instead of terminating.

Why would anyone need this?  Seems like a waste of time coding when it 
is so simple in PHP.  What kinda server would require a a sustained 
connection and what would it do to the system memory?

Hogan