On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Jenn G. <practicalp...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the more exact statement should be, mod_perl is compiled perl, > mod_perl is very fast. > But perl CGI...I must say it's very slow.
Well, you can say CGI is slow, but Perl CGI is very fast compared to the alternatives. Have you ever tried Java CGI? Or PHP CGI? They're not fast. Also, I don't like to tell people that mod_perl is "compiled" because it's really no more compiled than any other perl script. If you want to be precise, you could say mod_perl is a persistent daemon for running perl code, just like servlets are a persistent daemon for running Java. - Perrin
