OT: CS education gone wrong (Was: Re: TDD is BS?)

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On Monday, 24 June 2013 at 02:39:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 6/23/13 11:51 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> I think it is just an accident of history that mod_php ever 
>> got used.
>> Classic cgi implementations were still slow enough (especially 
>> with an
>> interpreted language) that people wanted to try something 
>> else, but the
>> other world of options hadn't taken root yet either (I think 
>> mod_php
>> even slightly predates fastcgi's introduction), and continues 
>> to exist
>> just out of inertia.
>
> OK so what's the way to go now? One process per request? Seems 
> heavy to me seeing as most requests last very little.
>
> Andrei

One process/thread per CPU core + async I/O.
FastCGI as simple alternative (it is similar to CGI but does not 
respawn process after processing request).