Hi whiteperl.

Embedding provides a great deal of power, speed, etc. In order to help facilitate your objective, I thought the following book might be of use:

• Title:Extending and Embedding Perl
• List Price:$44.95
• ISBN:1930110820
• Publisher:Manning Press

You can peruse the table of contents and code at:
http://www.manning.com/jenness/index.html

Hope this helps,
-Katie.