On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > Can you recommend me some tricks to make it work a little faster?
In general, it does make sense to use CGI.pm rather than hand coding things, but if you need a speed boost then the best strategies are to [a] use a smaller subset of CGI.pm, [b] substitute a related but smaller module, or [c] use mod_perl. Roughly in that order of desperation. > If I want to use the OOP style, is it possible to load only some > methods and not all? Yes, of course. The obvious way to do this is to use something like use CGI qw[ :something ]; to just pull in the aspects of the module that you want. Look up the docs for CGI to see which ones best match what you're doing. <http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.4/lib/CGI.html> <http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-3.05/CGI.pm> Alternatively, try an alternate module like CGI::Fast or CGI::Lite: <http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.4/lib/CGI/Fast.html> <http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-3.05/CGI/Fast.pm> <http://search.cpan.org/~smylers/CGI-Lite-2.02/Lite.pm> That or look into using mod_perl, possibly with Apache::Registry, which will let you (more or less) keep using your CGI.pm scripts, but it should speed them up considerably. > Why do I need to use multiple CGI objects in the same session? Can you give > me an example? You should only need one -- what makes you think you need more? > If I won't find many reasons to keep using the OOP style, I think I will > start using the functional one... (hoping that it will work faster). I don't *think* there should be a whole lot of speed difference here, though of course the way to know that for sure is to benchmark them. -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
