Which web server are you using? If you're using Apache or Zeus, then I must recommend using FastCGI. Basically, if your program looked something like this: 

my $cgi = new CGI;

$my_code->{$cgi->param("action"))->($cgi);

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You'd change it to:

my $req = FCGI::Request(...);

while ($req->Accept()) {
    my $cgi = new CGI;

    $my_code->{$cgi->param("action"))->($cgi);
}

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Then your perl program is just sitting in a little loop calling the code to generate a page when the web server connects to it. You should be able to get of the order of hundreds of dynamic page impressions per second. I'm getting 50 a second with a project I'm working on on my system, which includes some heavy database access.

In reply to Re: Speed, and my sanity. by mugwumpjism
in thread Speed, and my sanity. by Dylan

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