Ah, you make good points.
How well does memcache work with Perl? At least that’s what script lang this site is largely written in AFAIK.
I’d also wonder if Perl is more server-intensive than something like PHP.
memcache is a service, like http: http://memcached.org/
So, you simply need a client API. And there are many:
https://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/Clients
I’d also wonder if Perl is more server-intensive than something like PHP.
Perl and PHP are both interpreted languages. There really isn't enough difference between the two to be perceptible to the end-user, as long as there were no serious implementation errors.