I apologize if this is a silly question. I can't seem to get a straight answer to it, and you guys are always so helpful in putting people on the right track.

Here is the situation.

1. User goes to http:/mysite.com/main.pl.
1a. mysite.com is an apache server, completely regular.
2. main.pl is a perl script that loads a ton of stuff and prints it to the screen.

now, main.pl is a regular human-readable code block. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

bunch of stuff here

print $bunchofstuff;

exit;

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Am I doing something wrong? would this be significantly faster / less load-intensive if I, say, precompiled it, so that they would instead go to main.pl (which is a block of code, precompiled from main.txt or whatever) instead?

If so, how is this done?

Thank you for any help!

In reply to is precompiling possible / effective? by MashMashy

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