Actually, you might want to spend more time thinking about how your perl will run, not how it's written. If you are writing a CGI, you can use mod_perl on apache, Perl for Isapi on IIS, etc...

Also, I have found that using Perl2Exe can dramatically speed up a script that gets started often by eliminating the compile time.

I guess the point is that within reason, programming practice has a lot less to do with efficiency than run time implementation. Welcome to the world of interpreted languages.

That all said, use references, and avoid large hashes.

Hammy
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