note epoptai I took your advice and plugged [cpan://CGI::Simple::Standard] into a current project and found it consistently about 1/10 to 2/10 of a second slower than standard CGI. Current versions of both modules on activestate. Changing one line changed the output from times(): <code> #use CGI qw(Vars param header redirect); use CGI::Simple::Standard qw(Vars param header redirect); </code> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-43868"> <p><font size="-1"> --<br> perl -MO=Deparse -e"u j t S n a t o e h r , e p l r a h k c r e" </div></div> 317196 317220