################################################### # WARNING: Do not edit this file! # If you do the changes will be lost! # Instead edit the corresponding .txt file and run make.pl # # Don't forget to commit the changes to both .txt and the generated # .pod to svn, since others won't run the local make.pl #################################################### =head1 NAME BSat =head1 Mike Fletcher Elemur1 (at) MINDSPRING.COME exclaimed: =over =item * Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 13:01:58 -0500 =back At my former employer (Aaaahh . . . Sorry, just feels good to say that :), I rewrote a commercial interface to a defect tracking system. The original product was a bunch of Bourne shell scripts that all sourced one humoungus configuration script. It took on the order of 10-12 seconds to return some pages (and some of those weren't even excuting any queries against the defect database) on a mostly idle SS20. Under mod_perl, that dropped to approximately 2-4 seconds for everything but really large queries (i.e. everything in the db). =cut