You should have been at last year's YAPC::NA lightning talks. Did you know about mod_parrot? I believe Jeff Horowitz is leading that project and it should make for some pretty fast web code (in the future). If you want to know more, you should hang out on #parrot (irc.perl.org) or #perl6 (irc.freenode.org) and get real time interaction with those in the know.