Frankly, modules are excessively slow to load. Time how long it takes to load DBI. mod_perl is a "hack" solution and I'd prefer not to go down that road. What I'd like is a way, as a user, to create a perl binary that has the necessary modules pre-loaded. (I believe it's possible to recompile perl like this, but again I'd like to be able to do it as a non-compiling user.)
-dpk@dpk.net