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Simon Willison

simonwillison.net

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We ditched CGI in the late 1990s because of the overhead of starting, executing and stopping a process for every incoming request... turns out modern servers (plus languages like Go or Rust with a fast startup time) mean CGI isn't such a bad idea any more! https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/5/cgi-bin-performance/

2025-07-05T23:41:19.237Z