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> CGI is slow ....

CGI is _computationally_ slow, but in practice it's faster than it needs to be for most sites. Some examples of CGI-powered sites i'm aware of include:

- https://sqlite.org/forum

- https://sqlite.org/wasm (same domain, different sub-site)

- https://fossil-scm.org/home

- https://fossil-scm.org/forum (same domain, separate sub-site)

- https://fossil.wanderinghorse.net

All CGI, all the time, and _plenty_ performant for the purpose.

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Many people confuse "X is slower than Y" with "X is slow in some absolute sense". Starting a new process takes well under a millisecond on most modern machines, so that would be completely lost in the latency of most web requests. The real benefits of persistent processes are in getting to reuse database connections and the like.

> Starting a new process takes well under a millisecond on most modern machines

But if that process is Python or Java it's going to be tens to hundreds of milliseconds before it's ready to serve the request.

YMMV, but thats why i love Forth. it compiles the full app (not interpret) in ms. some think its dead or only for the embedded, but for me and my projects its a deadly combination + ultra fun.

Add to it https://git.kernel.org/

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