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From: Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: web scripting
Date: 18 May 2003 11:03:49 +0200
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"Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei@online.no> writes:

> "Pascal Obry"  wrote:
> > Something strange here. Why do you want scripting on the server side ? It
> > will just slow down the server with no gain at all!
> 
> Of course there is gain. You get the ability to extend the functionality of
> the server.

But on the server side you always have the possibility to recompile your
application. Using scripting on the server just slow-down the whole beast by
a factor of 2 or 3. Is that a gain ?

> However I believe that it is better to extend this functionality by using
> loadable modules.

This is not scripting in that case. So maybe we are not talking about the
same thing! To extend a server look at the AWS's hotplug modules for example.

Pascal.

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