=head1 DESCRIPTION

I have started with major hacks on top of Lincoln's version 2.23 of
CGI.pm in order to get rid of both AUTOLOADING and uncontrolled
global variables.

I release this package as CGI::XA (which stands for "for Apache")
for a limited audience as a test case.

This software is alpha software and it is not clear if it will be
supported for a longer time. My preferred solution would be, Lincoln
accepts all the changes and continues with his excellent work.

=head2 where are the main differences?

    No AUTOLOAD
    use strict clean
    no exports
    no cgi-lib.pl compatibility
    no "Q" namespace
    inlined rearrange

This code is faster than Lincoln's too:

Benchmark: timing 1000 iterations of cginamed, cgipos, fastnamed, fastpos...
  cginamed:  7 secs ( 5.84 usr  0.08 sys =  5.92 cpu)
    cgipos:  4 secs ( 3.48 usr  0.01 sys =  3.49 cpu)
 fastnamed:  3 secs ( 3.17 usr  0.01 sys =  3.18 cpu)
   fastpos:  3 secs ( 2.91 usr  0.01 sys =  2.92 cpu)

The benchmark is done with the script in eg/bench.rearrange

And with the small test script eg/rgy-cgi-pm2.pl (A CGI that runs a
counter and a time and a textfield, I could run 100 loops in 12
seconds on an Indy 100 MHz, not a terrific fast machine. The script on
the other end of the connection is eg/rgy-cgi-pm2.client.

CGI::Switch
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With this very simple module you can run the identical script from
your cgi-bin directory as a CGI script and from your perl alias script
as a apache subroutine. See eg/rgy-cgi-pm2.pl for an example.


Enjoy,
Andreas, 19 Aug, 1996