Chapter 3. Improving Performance with mod_ perl

The primary goal In Chapter 2, “Getting Connected—Putting Your Database on the Web,” was to take care of the basic aspects of getting your MySQL server to work with Apache. The important thing there was just to get data in and out of your databases over the Web, without any particular regard for performance. In this chapter, we’ll consider a simple method for improving performance that can help you throughout the rest of this book: use the Apache mod_perl module. In other words, the chapter isn’t so much about how to write scripts as about how to make them run faster. I’ll describe what mod_perl ...

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