I'd absolutely believe that. A bigger contributing factor was that our Perl site was launching a process that parsed some libraries and then served HTML. Whi

I'd absolutely believe that. A bigger contributing factor was that our Perl site was launching a process that parsed some libraries and then served HTML. While the php site was using a server extension that kept a parent process running and just spawned a thread for page requests. Again, don't judge me - I was very, very young. :-)