[Info-vax] Apache + mod_php performance

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/2/2024 8:28 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 20:14:20 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
>> On 10/2/2024 8:02 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 19:57:50 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It would be a lot easier without the C RTL data structures and the RMS
>>>> data structures.
>>>>
>>>> But they exist.
>>>
>>> VMS doesn’t force you to use them.
>>
>> True. But using $QIO(W) or $IO_PERFOM(W) for IO is exceptionally rare.
> 
> 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.

Terminal: yes.

Mailboxes: yes.

Tapes: yes.

Disk file: not so much.

>>> And I’m not clear what the point of them is, for network I/O.
>>
>> None.
>>
>> But I believe you said that on *nix you could transfer a file descriptor
>> over Unix socket as well.
> 
> Remember that POSIX has no “RMS” layer. A VMS “channel” might be
> considered equivalent to a POSIX “file descriptor”,

Yes.

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

Arne