[lelanthran]

> Speed is the only reason CGI doesn't fly.

It is indeed very very slow; mostly because it is not possible to pre-fork your CGI scripts (environment variables get set from the request, so each cgi program will have different values in the environment).

But, if you could pass HTTP data via some way other than environment variables, you could pre-fork the binaries and have acceptable speed[1].

[1] Pre-forking makes a large difference, and surprisingly is not too far off from other approaches to concurrent request handling. See https://unixism.net/2019/04/linux-applications-performance-i...

[preseinger]

Your link benchmarks with ab, which unfortunately has an unsound concurrency model, so you can't put too much trust in its results.