Spinning off time intensive procedures to speed CGI

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <916bpn$a6i$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <leejor at my-deja.com> wrote:
>
>I have a variety of time consuming proceedures that slow the response
>time of my CGI scripts. These are proceedures that do not send
>any information back to the web browser. I want to spin off these
>proceedures to allow the original program to imediately continue.
>Examples of these proceedures include: saving to Log files, sending
>emails, or caching database queries.

You might try using threads.
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