PHP or mod_perl

Which one should I use for my websites? I'm not worried about difficultly, just power and performance.

>>22
>And that's the reason it's only used by them.
QFT.

>>21
>Psst. You can turn that shit off.
Sometimes you have to deploy on a box that you don't admin. Either way you still have to litter your code with
 
if(get_magic_quotes_gpc()){
    stripslashes($var)
}

and other bullshit hacks to even get a working application. PHP is a horribly broken language.