On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 08:36 -0800, Goehring, Chuck, RCI - San Diego wrote: > If I modify the top level cgi, I don't have to restart the web server. > This tells me the modules are parsed only the first time and the top > level cgi is parsed every time it runs. So, for my setup, using > mod_perl does not reduce reparsing if my code is not in modules.
It just checks the modification time to see if it should be re-parsed. It doesn't re-parse it on every request. This section explains it in more detail: http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/intro.html#Apache__Registry - Perrin