ASP no open app??

[joeythesquash]

Hey, I was reading through ASP For Dummies, and it explains the advantage ASp has over a Perl CGi to be the fact that when running a Perl script, the server must have a copy of Perl running for each user. It goes on to say that this is not the case for ASP--but it doesn't explain how multiple users are accessing the file without having an open copy of SOMETHING for each user on the server... Can anyone give me some insight. I like the ASP stuff that I've seen...

[RysChwith]

Every server-side scripting language has a program that runs on the server to tell the server how to process that language. In the case of Perl, it has to start up a new copy of that parser program every time a Perl page is accessed. For ASP, it only needs one copy of the parser running, which can then handle multiple documents. Each document still takes up server resources, but only one copy of the parser is doing so. For Perl, each document is taking up server resources, along with a new copy of the parser for each document. Make sense?

Rys