If your service provider enables it for your site, you can
use the mod_perl
plugin for
the Apache Web server. The Apache/Perl integration project brings together
the full power of the Perl programming language and the Apache HTTP server.
Writes Apache modules
entirely in Perl
Save the overhead
of starting an external interpreter, i.e. the penalty of Perl start-up
time
Allows you to easily
do things that are more difficult or impossible in regular CGI programs,such
as running sub requests
Allows you to have
full access to the inner workings of the Web server and can intervene
at any stage of request-processing