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in reply to Re^2: More than mod_cgi less than mod_perl.
in thread More than mod_cgi less than mod_perl.

CGI itself is not that slow, but the overhead of loading the perl interpreter and modules is.

You may want to look at Juerd's PLP and use it to demonstrate to people that Perl kicks PHP's ass... As a sidenote, it only performs that well under mod_perl... ;)

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