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I recommend implementing a pure perl version first and testing it. You could always move speed critical portions into an XS module if needed. I think you'll be pleasantly suprised by how well perl handles the load though with a little tweaking. I once wrote a toy (minimum functionality) web server that could out-perform apache (with keep-alive turned off... I abandoned my script before getting keep-alive working in it).

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