Posted by Toby Inkster on 08/28/05 00:31

Joel Shepherd wrote:

> Right. So what sense does it make to say that "CGI is outdated", but
> [insert computer language here] still has a chance? (I realize that
> _you_ didn't say that.)

CGI is a rather outdated mechanism for server-side programming. It's
inefficient. It spawns a whole new process for each page request.

mod_php on the other hand is run in-process by the web server. There are
similar modules for Perl and some other programming languages. This allows
richer communication between the script and web server, and is more
efficient.

In the face of such modules, CGI is outdated.

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