Hmmm, peculiar bug.

I always thought that CGI isn't really as clunky and resource thursty since most of it's internals are loaded on-demand at run-time. There's not even a lot of code that perl has to parse initially (most of subs are evaled 'into' the package).

However, for the lightweight options, I suggest you look at CGI::Minimal. Give it a thorough try and see if it won't have a similar 'memory leaking' problem.

Cheers,

UPDATE: corrected module link *grin* ;).

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