Yeah I know mod_perl is a different beast altogether, I've had a little experience programming under it, but not a whole lot... I thought I linked it statically, but I will check...

Yeah it's statically linked, libperl.a exists, and the most recent Makefile has LIBPERL = libperl.a ...

Although I ran some tests, and it seems to be related to loading modules / large scripts, I think that in parsing CGI.pm its taking forever, I ran some other non-CGI scripts I have written, like calculating large prime numbers, and it seems to be just fine... I wonder if it has something to do with the disk I/O ... !? eek... *sigh*

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