Re: questions on serving big file & SQL statement parsing

["Perrin Harkins" <suppressed>]

On 7/3/07, Clinton Gormley <suppressed> wrote:
> However, the Perl code itself has
> already been compiled into C and is fast.

It's not a very important distinction, but perl code is not compiled
into C.  It gets compiled to an intermediary format of Perl opcodes,
which you can see with the B:: tools.

>  - a proxy front end handles the slow upload of data from the client
>  - it forwards it (internal network, thus fast) to your backend mod_perl
>    server, which can then process it (eg add it to the DB, resize the
>    image, store it where it needs to be stored), and return the data
>    to the proxy.

I think this depends on your proxy implementation.  Some will buffer
it up front and some will send it exactly as they receive it, which
may be in chunks.

- Perrin