> Seemingly I can do Apache handlers though, so I *might* be > okay.
If you look at http://perl.apache.org/guide/, there's information on how to determine if you're really running mod_perl or not. If you can get a PerlHandler directive to work, you have mod_perl. > I rather ambigously asked the question: How many > milliseconds might this stage take, on a commerial hosting > company's servers. Suppose without mod_perl this would be > at least 300ms, or probably worse. It depends on what you're doing in that stage. In relative terms, programs that access databases usually run many times faster in mod_perl than with CGI. - Perrin
