coolmichael has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
I'm not sure if this is the right place for this post, but I hope so.
I have a webserver with Linux-Mandrake 6.2, perl 5.005_03, and apache 1.3.9. I've written a simple script to do database lookups, but it's quite slow and I'd like to speed it up a bit. I've been reading about CGI::Fast and mod_perl. From what I understand it will be easier (less changes to the script) to use CGI::Fast than to rewrite it in mod_perl. I'm not very good with linux, and I've never used patch before.
Do you think it will be better to go with CGI::Fast?
Has anyone had experiences with it, good and bad?
How was installing CGI::Fast? I think I'd need to recompile perl to use it.
Are there any other comments?
[michael@illium michael]# perl -e "use CGI::Fast;" Can't locate FCGI.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i3 +86-linux / usr/lib/perl5/5.00503 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux /usr/l +ib/perl5/s ite_perl/5.005 .) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/CGI/Fast.pm line 22. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/CGI/Fast.p +m line 22. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
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