As I'm the one that said it was faster earlier in the thread, I think I should be the one to put the rumour to bed :-))

As mentioned in the earlier post, I was playing around with some preliminary configurations on my laptop and it was faster using flup/fastcgi (via ab, not wall clock).

I have been waiting for another server to be setup side by side at my hosting company before I did any 'real' testing, as any testing done outside the host network just saturated the b/w I had available from my office (nothing faster than 128k ISDN where I live/work) w/o getting the server warmed up.

I probably should have just kept my email shut until doing some real testing - stay tuned.