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-Homepage:
http://perl.apache.org/
+[mod_perl |
http://perl.apache.org/] marries [Perl] to [Apache]. It embeds the [Perl] interpreter in an [Apache] module to make it possible to write request handlers for [Apache] in [Perl], rather than writing them as modules in [C]. Compiled [Perl] code is kept in memory once it is loaded, eliminating the overhead of [CGI] scripts and opening up control over all stages of [Apache]'s request processing rather than just the content generation phase.
-mod_perl is the marriage
of [
Apache]
and [Perl]. It loads
the perl interpreter
, and then keeps the compiled/interpreted script
in memory, rather than reloading it for each access
.
+[
mod_perl] comes with a variety
of stock request handlers. Perhaps its most popular use is for those stock request handlers (
Apache::Registry
and Apache::!PerlRun, as well as several specific variations thereof) that attempt to offer its benefits to any
[Perl] [CGI] script simply by adding a few lines to the [Apache] configuration
. No adjustment to
the scripts is required
, unless they were written
in really dirty style. (Note however that rewriting them as true [mod_perl] request handlers still offers better performance at slightly lower
memory consumption; this is a question of tradeoffs to be made.)
+
+[mod_perl] drives some of the largest [WebSite]s of the world; see some [Success Stories | http://perl.apache.org/outstanding/success_stories/index.html]
.
