> 2) I am not exactly sure what you mean by "profiled your Perl", however I
do
> do benchmarks on code.  I am in the process of redesigning our website,
and
> thus taking this opportunity to improve upon old scripts that will need
> changing anyways.  Current improvements to our main script have it
runnning
> 400% faster than the original.  If I can make that 800% with C, I just
might
> reprogram it entirely.

Another .02 on this.

If you're doing stuff for the web, agonizing over small performance
improvements in your code can be a real waste of time.  Don't kill yourself
getting some script to run half a second faster when the finished page
contains 200K of graphics and lots of your users are connecting with 28.8
and 56K modems.  All of your performance gains will be lost in the bigger
delays caused by graphic size, latency, and the like.

Now, if you're finding things like the server is bogging down because it
isn't handling the incoming requests quickly enough, that's another story.
But when increasing web performance, you have to take the entire
user->server->user roundtrip process into account.
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