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It’s desirable to avoid forking under mod_perl, as when you do, you are forking the entire Apache se
rver — lock, stock and barrel. Not only is your Perl code and Perl interpreter being duplicated, but so is mod_ssl, mod_rewrite, mod_log, mod_proxy, mod_speling (it’s not a typo!) or whatever modules you have used in your server, all the core routines.Modern operating systems come with a light version of fork, which adds a little overhead when called, since it was optimized to do t 
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