[asterisk-dev] Status of another channel from AGI

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Steven Critchfield wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 11:20 -0500, Paul wrote:
>> Steven wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> Performance and security is not special to any interface of asterisk.
>>> Performance isn't usually a quality of AGI that is taken really
>>> seriously. Look at the many applications Tilghman has written so that
>>> one doesn't need to spawn out to AGI to accomplish certain tasks. He has
>>> mentioned before that he is trying to eliminate most needs for AGI and
>>> help keep the development in the dialplan. 
>>>
>> If I were to take an existing dialplan and simply change all existing
>> AGI invocations to use macros would it affect performance other than
>> startup and reload when the macros are parsed? That would allow me to
>> replace AGI with applications by simply changing a macro.
> 
> Startup is where my company is seeing the biggest hit. Granted our app
> is a pretty large perl app, but it takes more than a second and
> sometimes as much as two seconds to start. We have had to mask startup
> by providing ringing after answer. 
> 

Isn't this what FastAGI was designed for?