Folks, all the benchmarks and conclusions that I post are not coming as a bite flame. Let me summarize it in two words: I want people to be able to optimize their code when they want to. I just show how to do it and what are the good places to look at. If you don't want/need to optimize, that's fine. I post these benchmarks so you'd check for the possible fairness flaws/mistakes in my benchmarks. So far Tim Bunce and a few other folks were of the biggest help, pointing out the flaws. As for Barrie's comment about 20-80 rule of thumb (how they call it in the university :) that's where the Profiling sections comes to help and all the benchmarks of course... Have a nice mod_perl :) _____________________________________________________________________ Stas Bekman JAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide http://perl.apache.org/guide mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perl.org http://stason.org/TULARC http://singlesheaven.com http://perlmonth.com http://sourcegarden.org