title: Is PHP or vanilla Perl CGI faster?
body: <p>I'm developing a web app for an Apache shared hosting server.  I have already written some code in Perl but I recently found out, to my surprise, the shared hosting provider does not provided mod_perl or a way to install it.</p>
  
  <p>I have been a bit worried that running a Perl web app through CGI without mod_perl would make it very slow?  Should I switch all of my code to PHP instead, would that be faster?</p>
  
  <p>The reason I chose Perl in the first place is, I'm very familiar with Perl more than PHP.  Also I wanted to be able to use my Perl libraries outside the realm of web development.</p>
  
  <p>So if any of you are experienced with Apache web development, can you shed some light as to which direction should I take.</p>
  
  <p>For the sake of this question, lets say the web application will get 500+ hits a day.</p>
  
  <p>Which would be faster PHP or Perl without mod_perl?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance for the help.</p>