Ah, I haven't really used Apache::PerlRun, so I wasn't aware of that difference. I exclusively use Apache::Registry, and thought that *that* was the heart of mod_perl

But I still do would like to point out that if the script itself is relatively small, I personally didn't see much of a difference -- that is, not enough to make me go ga-ga over mod_perl. Maybe it was just that my particular configuration was that way, but since this original poster seemed unsure if mod_perl was doing its magic, I wanted to point out that the perceived difference may not be that big, if the initial compilation overhead wasn't as big.

Does that make sense?

Anyhow, I learned the difference between Apache::PerlRun and Apache::Registry today. that's cool. Thanks