[cgiapp] Re: [OT] CGI::Session is good, but we can do better (a new project is born?)

[Mark Stosberg <suppressed>]

On 2005-06-17, David Emery <suppressed> wrote:
>
> The couple of times I've tried working with Class::DBI, I found that
> it was quite noticably slow compared with doing the same thing via SQL
> + DBI. I think that could be a problem with something like sessions
> that tend to get run on every request.

Performance is a concern I share, and I don't know how well Class::DBI
will do there. However, assuming I don't expose anything that would 
very Class::DBI specific, the backend could be updated later, and much
of the value returned. 

> On a related note, have you looked at Apache::Session? I've read
> somewhere that it doesn't actually depend on mod_perl as the name
> would imply.

I've looked at the documentation some, but haven't tried it.  If I
understand my lineage right, CGI::Session is based on it. They both
share the behavior I don't like putting the whole session into a single
field. 

    Mark
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