| Nic Ferrier 2004-11-09, 8:57 pm |
| Bruce Lewis <brlspam@yahoo.com> writes:
> Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk> writes:
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> This sounds like premature optimization to me. A lot of success has
> been had with frameworks that don't scale well.
I don't believe so. I think it's a better understanding of what the
web is. The web *is* stateless. See Representational State Transfer
(or REST) by Roy Fielding:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pu...rtation/top.htm
> Speaking as someone accustomed to writing stateless and SQL-store web
> apps, I'd say go for it with the continuation based concept and see how
> well it flies. Obviously a lot of people have trouble doing stateless
> or event-driven programming, and using continuations to create the
> illusion of conventional step-by-step programming might win over quite a
> few.
Yes. Maybe.
> I also wouldn't worry about Apache. Shared hosting will largely be
> replaced by User Mode Linux as time goes on, I predict.
I agree.
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Nic Ferrier
http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk
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