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in reply to Why mod_perl is good for PHP

Have you looked at SpeedyCGI?

While it isn't a stand-alone engine, it does give you much of mod_perl's benefits (e.g. a persistent perl process) without requiring any modification of the underlying web server. I've installed and used it entirely within a user account, without any system privileges, and it serves up my HTML::Mason pages with respectable performance. - barrachois