I doubt it.
However, it is a well known fact that running a persistent perl interpreter (CGI::Fast, PPerl)
is always "faster" than starting a new perl process for every request (which is what cgi does),
regardless of whether or not that interpreter is embedded (mod_perl) in a webserver.
MJDsays "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"