I'm researching the language/technology I want to use serverside for my ajax queries. I am currently using cgi perl but the overhead is killing me. For a simple query I am hitting 300ms and for a more complex one (loading CGI and DBI) I am hitting 700ms average.

I am considering going to mod_perl or php or jsp or something else. I was wondering what people are using for there serverside technology in time critical ajax features (like an update every 1-2 seconds).

Thanks,
david_kw

Hi,

If it is speed you need serverside JSP and PHP are a bit slow. ASP and ASP.net are faster don't know any faster way.

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> If it is speed you need serverside JSP and PHP are a bit slow.

Some evidence to backup your statement?

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Your speed issues could be any number of things. Do you have properly configured DNS on the server? Is that figure the amount of time for script execution, or a ping/traceroute time? If it's a ping time, it's a network issue and changing languages won't make any difference. If it's script execution time, I'd do a bit more research before chucking the language out the window. You probably have something misconfigured, or another issue that you're overlooking. Keep in mind that millions of sites use Perl scripting everyday; that you are having issues with it is more than likely something in your configuration and use of the language, rather than in the language itself.

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Rich

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I might have a bit to quick with that. All I have seen so far is that when I try php compared to asp on my localhost asp pages seem to load slightly faster.

For the JSP comment i have to take that back.

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I am DJ Kat...that's my name. Its a D and a J and a Kat with a K.

If you wanna be free on server side, you can choose php. Free on ennvironment and money.

Best regards John