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[Christopher <weblionx AT gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Martin C <martin AT mchomenet.com> wrote:
>> I wouldn't suggest that you use CGI, though. It's old and slow.
>
> I tried to google this but only found a few references to people talking
> about having to load Perl and it's various modules, ...

From what I've gathered is that there's CGI, then there's Fast CGI.
It's a slightly different standard that reduces overhead. If I recall
correctly, CGI runs the CGI program every time it makes a request.
Fast CGI lets the CGI program keep running (so there's no overhead of
starting/stopping the program constantly) and sends requests through a
socket. I think it also supports things in a more flexible manner, but
I don't know the details off-hand.