SPUG: Is there some other recommended replacement for CGI.pm with Apache2?

[O'neil, Jerome]

> I don't know if this is what Adam meant by "resource waster", or what
Jerome meant by 
> "isn't nearly the monster that it's reputed to be", but it's a complaint
that I've heard 
> many times, namely, loading 'that huge beast into my simple form script
will slow the 
> whole server'.

That sums it up quite nicely.  CGI.pm is a large module, to be sure, but
most of that is pod, and the remainder of the compilation is deferred until
the methods are called.

Here is a simple test.

%time perl -M"CGI qw(-no_debug)" -e 'my $c = new CGI'
0.08 user 0.07 system 0:00.16 elapsed.

If you use the function oriented interface, i.e. use CGI qw(:all),  it can
be a bit slower, but still, not nearly the beast it's reputed to be.

HTH!

-J





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