[Bug-apl] startup time, and, is there a way to run under FastCGI?

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

First, thanks for GNU APL!

I have a simple script that I have written, it compares one list of 
approximately 5000 10-digit phone numbers with another list of 1700 ten-digit 
phone numbers and tells me which numbers (items) in the second list, are not in 
the larger list.

So I do the 2 FIO [49] for each file, assigning each to a variable, then

result<- large5klist~smallerlist
(rho)result
47 1 (rho) result (to print it out)  ; I know in this case there are 47 results 
and I want it printed in just 1 column, i.e. one phone number per line
)OFF

when I run this under Linux (a recent svn trunk), without the banner etc., it 
completes in approximately 0.520 seconds; actually the banner doesn't seem to 
make much difference in output.

When I run "comm -23 list1.txt list2.txt" it takes 0.016 seconds on the same 
hardware.

Now, I don't expect such performance, but, is there a way to reduce the time?  
Is there a way to start APL such that it can "fork" a task to handle this, so 
that startup time is almost zero?

And (I think about doing this via a web interface) is there a way to run APL 
under FastCGI?  My guess is that the interpreter startup time is the issue, 
rather than the actual execution of the commands.  I will try to test just an 
"empty" APL startup e.g. a script which contains only )OFF , and see what 
amount of time that takes.

Cheers

Patrick Giagnocavo
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