Re: usefulness of scsh for web CGIs

[Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>]

> Not necessarily. The httpd process can fork the handler. This just uses
> Unix fork() to replicate the process, so there's no vm heap-load overhead.

I believe some http daemons further reduce the response time by
"pre-forking", that is, forking before a request is received so that
there's a process ready to go immediately.

-- Richard