Well, this is quite an old article (May 99), but I've just stumbled upon it, while browsing the performancecomputing.com archives: "Decreasing Your Site's World Wide Wait" http://www.performancecomputing.com/columns/web/9905.shtml It's a very basic overview of existing improvements of mod_cgi... Apache Binary Evolution FastCGI Fast.Serv mod_perl NeoWebScript nsapi_perl PHP tcl tcl/java Enjoy... _______________________________________________________________________ Stas Bekman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.singlesheaven.com/stas Perl,CGI,Apache,Linux,Web,Java,PC at www.singlesheaven.com/stas/TULARC www.apache.org & www.perl.com == www.modperl.com || perl.apache.org single o-> + single o-+ = singlesheaven http://www.singlesheaven.com