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Given that the SSI directives could appear quite a few times in a single document, under heavy traffic loads would it be better to execute a single call that would process an entire HTML page using regular epressions to insert the affiliate code in all the right places or to go ahead and let the simple insertion script be run multiple times per page load?

There's a third option that's close in spirit to your first choice: Instead of using regular expressions to rewrite the HTML, usage a templating mechanism (e.g., HTML::Template).

Your second scheme starts a process per SSI insertion. Under load, this'll kill you.

Don't be concerned that the page you're building is 40K or so. That's peanuts compared with the overhead launching several process.

In reply to Re: Speed consideration by dws
in thread Speed consideration by SpaceAce

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