CGI is great for small projects, but yes, it is slow and bulky. If you run Apache, i recommend taking the time to climb the learning curve of mod_perl. Once you get it up and running, you will have all of the benifits that CGI offers, AND have lightening fast page generation time, thanks to caching.

Lincoln Stein co-authored the book on mod_perl, Writing Apache Module with Perl and C with the author of mod_perl, Doug MacEachern.

Another option would be CGI::Lite, but i have no experience with it (i use mod_perl!)

Jeff

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