When running mod-perl on Apache, does it improve performance if a perl script is divided into several parts?

For example, which scenario will have better performance?

In both scenarios, users executing the scripts need to perform either function A or B but not both simultaneously. Yet, both functions share much common perl code.

Scenario 1: scriptAB.pl completes function A and function B. scriptAB.pl gets 100 hits per minute.

Scenario 2: scriptA.pl does function A, and gets 50 hits per minute. scriptB.pl does function B, and gets 50 hits per minute.

Does it improve performance if scriptAB.pl is broken into scriptA.pl and scriptB.pl and a third file is used for common subroutines? Or, is that a waste of time since the server gets 100 hits per minute anyways?

THANKS FOR ANY HELP!

In reply to Improving PERL Performance by Anonymous Monk

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