Subject:      BSat
From:       Mike Fletcher <lemur1@MINDSPRING.COM>
Date:         Fri, 6 Mar 1998 13:01:58 -0500

        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).