gregorovius has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Dear fellow Monks,
I'm currently using Perlscript/ASP over NT and MS IIS. My site is heavily dependant on static data that I fetch from SQL tables with DBI on a module that I call Globals.pm. My problem is that every time I include Globals.pm on my ASPs, perlscript will fetch and execute it again (along with the perl interpreter). I was assuming this would not happen because of my mod_perl background (which IS a complete solution). Needless to say this is very inefficient and makes my pages slow. I want to know if there's a way of avoiding this with any opensource product, and if anybody who has had experience with ActiveState's PerlEX can comment on its workings and the speed improvements it allows.
There is Not as much you can do with this unless you can put in Apache for Win32 on it. The only thing that I can think of that may help you is to make perl.exe a service in IIS. I am not sure if this is standard installation or not. But I know that is why asp starts getting slow itself when you start adding include files.