Any light you can shed on these is appreciated.

1. I read somewhere that print statments are very slow, so I originally wanted to keep everything to one print at the very end. Would it be better to store all the variables globally or pass them to the subroutine that prints? (Let's just say we have 10-15 small variables or so.)

2. A little thing that's been bugging me: In a subroutine that takes parameters, is it faster to use shift() or $_[0]?

3. Normally, I use CGI.pm for my scripts, but it's a pretty large module and I'm concerned about speed since I only use it for reading cookies and submitted data. Would it be faster to just assign all the values to a hash at the beginning, and is there anything I might miss that CGI.pm would have caught?

In reply to Some questions about CGI and optimizing Perl by Cap'n Steve

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