[Xitami] Xitami/5 - new project announcement

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Hogan <hogan at geeksgalore.ca> wrote:
>
> 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?

Many developers don't want to, or can't use PHP.  LRWP works with any
language.

The persistent connection is cheap, and allows the server to queue up
requests so they can be processed one after the other by the LRWP app.

It's not about A vs. B, choice is useful.  Also, from the perspective
of the web server, it's far simpler to implement LRWP than to natively
support PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.

Xitami/2.5's PHP support goes via CGI, so is much slower than LRWP.

Cheers,
Pieter