Which means that it is worth optimizing. To Death.

I have a hard time swallowing that. In a regular CGI, the start-up time to fork off a new interpreter and load your program is going to be the limiting factor for almost any CGI out there. You would have to be running massive numbers of input params before that becomes the limiting factor.

If you're running mod_perl, things are different. But in that case, Apache::Request claims to be faster (I haven't looked at the actual benchmarks, so I'll take their word for it for the moment).

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I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be manipulated, and ended up creating an object system by accident.
-- Schemer

Note: All code is untested, unless otherwise stated