Re: [OT] Apache Bench (ab.c) written as perl XS module?

[Matt Sergeant <ma...@sergeant.org>]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Adi wrote:

> [OT: already posted to libwww@perl.org, just thought people here might have
> suggestions, comments, etc]
> 
> I am thinking about writing the XS glue for the apache bench tool (ab).  The
> ab code as it is, is not very flexible, but it is damn fast.  If I
> implemented it as a perl XS module, I could add the flexibility into a nice
> OO package.
> 
> Is there any interest in such a module?  Could it fit in with LWP somehow? 
> I have not tried out LWPng yet - does it use XS code to speed up requests
> much faster than LWP?
> 
> At our company we need to write a benchmarking suite, and LWP fits our needs
> perfectly except for the fact that its just not fast enough.  It would be
> perfect if we could integrate ab with LWP.  So, just wanting to get general
> feedback from the LWP community on whether such software would be useful to
> others.

I'd love to see something like that.

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