Look, my first post. :)
Ok, I'm an uber perl noob, so go easy...
Anyway, I've got a script which is using File::Recurse to parse a directory, and returns a very simple HTML file with a link to each directory that it finds. (It strips the directories higher than the server's document root) This script appeasrs to work fine on small directories. However, I get into searching a really large directory with lots of subdirs, it takes a VERY long time, (3+hours)and apparently lots of memory. (the machine is a dual P3 600 /w 640MB, so it's not a hardware issue) Is there anything I can do to optimize this? Is there a better solution? Like I said, I'm a n00b, so this is based mostly off the File::Recurse's README. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use File::Recurse;

print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print "<html><body><h1>Web Server Directory Listing</h1>";

my %files = &Recurse(['/Intranet/html'], {});

my @dirs = ();
my @files = ();
foreach (sort keys %files)
        {
        @dirs = split(/\/Intranet\/html/,$_);
        print "<A href='@dirs'>@dirs</a><br>";
        foreach (@{ $files{$_} })
                {
                @files = (@files,$_);
                }
        }
$f = @files;
$d = @dirs;
print "<br><br>";
print "$d total directories were found.";
print "$f total files were found.";
print "</body></html>";

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