I assure you that isn't the case..I wanted to see what would happen if I ran it as regular CGI...it completely froze my server and had to restart. Regular CGI would never be able to achieve 0.07 loading speeds..well maybe a "Hello World"? (not to mention the start up time would not be the issue but execution time would be..as regular perl it took 8 seconds to load..4 seconds for begin block and 4 seconds for regular code execution)

Anyways point being is I'm 100% sure it is all PerlEX/Mod_Perl.