I spent four years mostly on perl 2009-2012, and again briefly last year. The performance of any non-trivial perl web app is laughably bad when you run as CGI.

I spent four years mostly on perl 2009-2012, and again briefly last year. The performance of any non-trivial perl web app is laughably bad when you run as CGI. I've never run prod systems without psgi or mod_fcgid.