in reply to Re: Seeker Of Perl Sympathy
in thread Seeker Of Perl Sympathy

Teach! I've heard this comment about CGI before, but not sure what the downsides of CGI are (I use it in all my scripts accepting user form input). Enlighten, please. Thanks.


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Re^3: Seeker Of Perl Sympathy
by jplindstrom (Monsignor) on Jan 09, 2005 at 14:09 UTC
    Perl in a CGI environment usually means that the perl interpreters is started on each request. This isn't very efficient.

    mod_perl has a persistent perl environment available to serve the request which means there is no overhead for creating a process, compiling the code etc.

    /J

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