HA! 3-4 millibits. If all my problems were that small!
While I am not a mod_perl expert I am well versed in it. I understand that forking will not be more expensive and I know that it does not load the modules everytime you fork, that is just silly. And yes getting rid of Apache is my goal here. I would like a Perl daemon. Something that loafs around with precompiled modules sitting in it just waiting to be used by a script that needs them. A kind of module pre-compiler. I want to be able to define which modules I am going to use very frequently have them precompiled, held in a pristine state and ready for use. The only thing close I could think of was mod_perl. Perhaps it was a bad example.