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in reply to Re^2: Seeker Of Perl Sympathy
in thread Seeker Of Perl Sympathy

Perl in a CGI environment usually means that the perl interpreters is started on each request. This isn't very efficient.

mod_perl has a persistent perl environment available to serve the request which means there is no overhead for creating a process, compiling the code etc.

/J