You want to use CGI::Application. It would be very easy to have a subclass of C::A also inherit from or delegate to HTTP:::Server::Simple. Some benefits:

As for your Tie::Persistent thing ... go with a database. There's no reason not to use DBD::SQLite, seeing as PodMaster already has a version compiled for both ActivePerl 5.6 and ActivePerl 5.8.

Now, to deal with your general architecture. I have no idea what you're doing, what the script is meant to do, or why. I do know that you're intending on distributing an application that creates a web server to people who don't know enough about programming to figure out how to install something.

*blinks*

This is going to create security holes ... I would strongly suggest that, if you intend on doing this, you provide the source code to some community, possibly Perlmonks, so that it can be peer-reviewed. Otherwise, you will be doing your users a disservice by providing them unreviewed software that can open their computers to malicious people.

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In reply to Re: modularization, memory usage and performance by dragonchild
in thread modularization, memory usage and performance by jmagiera

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