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Speeding Up Perl Scripts With SpeedyCGI/PersistentPerl On Debian Etch

Written By
FT
Falko Timme
Sep 16, 2007

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“This tutorial shows how to install and use SpeedyCGI (also
known as PersistentPerl) on a Debian Etch system. SpeedyCGI is a
way to run Perl scripts persistently, which can make them run much
more quickly. It keeps the Perl interpreter running, and during
subsequent runs, this interpreter is used to handle new executions
instead of starting a new Perl interpreter each time…

“I have tested this on a Debian Etch system (with Apache2
installed) with a virtual host www.example.com (document root:
/var/www/web1/web) which is configured to run Perl scripts in the
/var/www/web1/cgi-bin directory…”

Complete
Story

Related Story:
Apache
Today: Persistent Perl on the Virtual Host
(Sep 01, 2000)

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Falko Timme

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