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		7952 on Feb 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zerg demo – Xen instance spawned for each web requ... If you run Perl in CGI it creates a new VM for every single request. How is this different?

lucaspiller on Feb 19, 2013 | [–]

See http://erlangonxen.org/. This means VM in terms of an AWS instance :)

csense on Feb 20, 2013 | [–]

CGI creates a new OS process for every request. Zerg creates a new Xen VM for every request.

These are very different things.

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