Framework perhaps was the wrong word. What I meant was simply scripting/programing languages.

I'm looking at mod_perl mainly because of it's easy to use page caching functions, which PHP had no support for. Not even the larger projects (Mediawiki, Wordpress, etc) had correct support for conditional GETs.

But I'm willing to take a look at anything with good performance. BTW is there any benchmarks on all the current languages (Ruby, PHP, Python, Perl, etc)? There doesn't seem to be any that are horribly outdated.

Thanks.