[OSM-dev] C++ implementation of the API

[Raphael Studer]

> I'm a frequent user of Perl and it has lots of merits, but I wouldn't
> want to base a high-performance module on it that reads data from Mysql
> and shifts it over to Apache. I haven't done the numbers on that but my
> gut feeling is that you'll be copying the data around a few times more
> in that scenario...

A question:
Do we need an Apache server?
Why not writing (in c/c++) a small daemon listening on another port
(e.g. 8080) and having a pool of threads translating from GET requests
to mysql querries and from mysql results to xml?

Regards
Raphael