Speedycgi is a way to run perl scripts persistently, which usually makes them run much more quickly because it avoids the overhead of starting up a new perl interpreter and compiling the perl code.

this package provides an apache2 module so that speedycgi scripts can be run without the overhead of doing a fork/exec for each request. please note that this package only works with apache2's prefork mpm or the itk mpm, as it is not thread-safe.