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Why does it seem like you're avoiding Tcl? Your recent wiki edits have been focused around other languages in AOLserver other than Tcl, like Lua, PHP and Ruby. Why? You will really never get the kind of performance out of Perl, PHP or Ruby as you will Tcl, because Tcl is suitable for embedding in a multi-threaded application where Perl, PHP and Ruby aren't. (I don't know enough about Lua to say one way or the other.) So, if you still want to use those other languages, then you probably don't care about performance at the high end, in which case, you probably don't need to use AOLserver, either. In the small, any web server will be more than adequate on modern hardware to serve a few hundred pages here and there. It's when you start getting into the few hundred per second arena where AOLserver has the opportunity to shine. ''-- [[User:Dossy|Dossy]] 07:46, 10 December 2005 (EST)'' | Why does it seem like you're avoiding Tcl? Your recent wiki edits have been focused around other languages in AOLserver other than Tcl, like Lua, PHP and Ruby. Why? You will really never get the kind of performance out of Perl, PHP or Ruby as you will Tcl, because Tcl is suitable for embedding in a multi-threaded application where Perl, PHP and Ruby aren't. (I don't know enough about Lua to say one way or the other.) So, if you still want to use those other languages, then you probably don't care about performance at the high end, in which case, you probably don't need to use AOLserver, either. In the small, any web server will be more than adequate on modern hardware to serve a few hundred pages here and there. It's when you start getting into the few hundred per second arena where AOLserver has the opportunity to shine. ''-- [[User:Dossy|Dossy]] 07:46, 10 December 2005 (EST)'' | ||
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| + | * Not at all -- I'm looking at other languages simply from the point of view of seeing how AOLServer modules are built at all. It has been a while since I did any heavy lifting with C, and I felt that tinkering with the module code would be a good refresher. Just scratching an itch. I use TCL heavily every day at work, and have no real knowledge of Lua either, it just seemed an opportune target to use when examining the general AOLServer module layer. --[[Caveman]] 12:23, 12 December 2005 (EST) | ||
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| + | ** Okay, cool. FYI, "AOLserver" is capitalized just like that, not "AOLServer" -- I'm picking nits, but the consistency is important to me. Thanks. :-) ''-- [[User:Dossy|Dossy]] 12:41, 12 December 2005 (EST)'' | ||
Revision as of 17:41, 12 December 2005
Hi, and welcome to the wiki! If you don't mind me asking, what's your full name (or do you want to remain anonymous)? Are you also subscribed to the AOLSERVER mailing list? Some of us also hang out on IRC and chat (you can also access the chat via AIM, but most folks use IRC).
If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to contact me. Thanks! -- Dossy 07:13, 3 December 2005 (EST)
Why does it seem like you're avoiding Tcl? Your recent wiki edits have been focused around other languages in AOLserver other than Tcl, like Lua, PHP and Ruby. Why? You will really never get the kind of performance out of Perl, PHP or Ruby as you will Tcl, because Tcl is suitable for embedding in a multi-threaded application where Perl, PHP and Ruby aren't. (I don't know enough about Lua to say one way or the other.) So, if you still want to use those other languages, then you probably don't care about performance at the high end, in which case, you probably don't need to use AOLserver, either. In the small, any web server will be more than adequate on modern hardware to serve a few hundred pages here and there. It's when you start getting into the few hundred per second arena where AOLserver has the opportunity to shine. -- Dossy 07:46, 10 December 2005 (EST)
- Not at all -- I'm looking at other languages simply from the point of view of seeing how AOLServer modules are built at all. It has been a while since I did any heavy lifting with C, and I felt that tinkering with the module code would be a good refresher. Just scratching an itch. I use TCL heavily every day at work, and have no real knowledge of Lua either, it just seemed an opportune target to use when examining the general AOLServer module layer. --Caveman 12:23, 12 December 2005 (EST)
- Okay, cool. FYI, "AOLserver" is capitalized just like that, not "AOLServer" -- I'm picking nits, but the consistency is important to me. Thanks. :-) -- Dossy 12:41, 12 December 2005 (EST)
