mod_perl到底是個什麼

perl.apache.org

mod_perl brings together the full power of the programming language and the HTTP server. You can use Perl to manage Apache, respond to requests for web pages and much more.

mod_perl gives you a persistent Perl interpreter embedded in your web server. This lets you avoid the overhead of starting an external interpreter and avoids the penalty of Perl start-up time, giving you super-fast dynamic content.

As you'd expect from the Perl community, there are hundreds of modules written for mod_perl, everything from persistent database connections, to templating systems, to complete XML content delivery systems. Web sites like and use mod_perl.

我想第一段紅字是很重要的，她這個避免了用perl這種script語言寫cgi指令碼的天生的不足：需要每次啟動Perl

第二段紅字更重要，在Mod_perl框架內，更好的實現了CGI原來一些東西，比如Apache::DBI,只要增加一句話，就可以讓mod_perl裡邊的db連線變成持久的。