Re: Apache + mod_php performance

On 10/2/2024 8:28 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 20:14:20 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
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On 10/2/2024 8:02 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 19:57:50 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

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It would be a lot easier without the C RTL data structures and the RMS
data structures.
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But they exist.

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VMS doesn’t force you to use them.

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True. But using $QIO(W) or $IO_PERFOM(W) for IO is exceptionally rare.

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I did it all the time. For terminal stuff, it was much easier than trying
to work through the cumbersome indirection layer imposed by RMS.

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Terminal: yes.
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Mailboxes: yes.
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Tapes: yes.
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Disk file: not so much.
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And I’m not clear what the point of them is, for network I/O.

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None.
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But I believe you said that on *nix you could transfer a file descriptor
over Unix socket as well.

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Remember that POSIX has no “RMS” layer. A VMS “channel” might be
considered equivalent to a POSIX “file descriptor”,

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Yes.
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But the C code cannot use it as a file descriptor.