I'm definitely aware, having done a lot of CGI programming in perl myself back then. But nowadays it just seems so strange to boot up an interpreter and start p

I'm definitely aware, having done a lot of CGI programming in perl myself back then. But nowadays it just seems so strange to boot up an interpreter and start parsing/validating/executing a script from scratch on every request. Even if you have disk cache and fast process launching, it's just a lot of work you have to do each time.