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A performance analysis demonstrating that CGI applications can handle impressive loads on modern hardware, achieving over 2400 requests per second or 200+ million requests per day. The author benchmarks a simple Go-based guestbook CGI program using both Apache and a custom Go HTTP server, showing that while CGI may not be the optimal choice today, it remains surprisingly viable for high-traffic applications when paired with contemporary multi-core processors.

Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin

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