Zigster,
Perhaps it is just my local configuration but I've found PerlScript to be very slow. I'd assumed that it was suffering from reloading the interpreter everytime the page was displayed - i.e. the problem that mod_perl fixes at the server end. Do you find the performance to be acceptable?
To be honest I have not used perlscript in anger. I use CGI where I can. I have played with it enuff to know it exists and may help out in this circumstance.
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