I'm not sure if this is the right place for this post, but I hope so.

I have a webserver with Linux-Mandrake 6.2, perl 5.005_03, and apache 1.3.9. I've written a simple script to do database lookups, but it's quite slow and I'd like to speed it up a bit. I've been reading about CGI::Fast and mod_perl. From what I understand it will be easier (less changes to the script) to use CGI::Fast than to rewrite it in mod_perl. I'm not very good with linux, and I've never used patch before.
Do you think it will be better to go with CGI::Fast?
Has anyone had experiences with it, good and bad?
How was installing CGI::Fast? I think I'd need to recompile perl to use it.
Are there any other comments? 

[michael@illium michael]# perl -e "use CGI::Fast;"
Can't locate FCGI.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i3
+86-linux /
usr/lib/perl5/5.00503 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux /usr/l
+ib/perl5/s
ite_perl/5.005 .) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/CGI/Fast.pm line 22.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/CGI/Fast.p
+m line 22.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.

[download]

michael
the blue haired monk

In reply to Please share CGI::Fast experiences by coolmichael

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.