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Assuming you have no troubles with either install, PHP drops in and starts working a whole lot easier than mod_perl + a content package. If you have troubles with both, PHP is mega easier to deal with.

Honestly, that is the only thing Perl is slower at, in my real world experience. I've used both, I've installed both multiple times, I keep winding up in mod_perl. I've found that PHP, ColdFusion, and similar systems all make easy things real easy, categories of hard things ok, and everything else fricking impossible. Perl makes easy things ok and everything else possible.

A quick perusal of both would lead you to believe that PHP is quicker, but in the end, what will make all the difference is how quick you can do the hard stuff, computers today can flood T3s with dynamic content, but developer time is worth thousands of PCs...

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