RE: Speed on Raq

[Nick Temple <ntemple@tgl.net>]

Actually, the Signio piece is written in straight C and has been ported
directly to the Linux/MIPS (RaQ) with very little problem.  The Perl piece
is an xsub that links to the included C library included for pretty spiffy
performance.  I have had some trouble with the multithreading librairies,
but if you are handling under 10 transactions per second, it shouldn't be a
bother. I've heard upgrading to the latest glibc helps (and allows MySQL to
run as well), though I haven't tried.

I've been using the new one RaQ's for a while, and one with 64Mb and the
SCSI option seems to perform pretty good - and uses very little rack space
(which is actually an important factor for me).  I do use them mostly for
static content, though.  The catalog server is a dual PII 400 w/512MB and
seems to perform quite adequately :)

Cheers,

Nick

>PaymentNet (now called Signio) has/had a client piece written in Perl that
>did the client-side encryption and connect.  It sounds like CyberCash is
>just trying to skim the cream with the Intel boxes.
>