What are the ups and downs of using FastCGI C++  vs.  PHP/Python/Perl to do the same job. 
Any performance or design pitfalls or using one over the other? Even your opinions are welcome. (Tell me why one or the other rocks, or one or the other sucks).
Too bad there are no benchmarks of C/C++ vs Perl CGI.
Without FastCGI I think C/C++ would be a lot faster, with FastCGI possibly it'll be faster (but maybe a little less - all the initialization part is executed once).
Again this is very application dependent, so some sort of benchmarks for different dynamic web pages should be provided.
Personally I think that if your company has resources it should/could invest in C/C++ (given that they have to find proper ones...), otherwise is better to stick to a scripting language.
Naturally if you want to deploy fast applications you should use C/C++.
At the end of the day the compiled language is faster. But probably finding good C/C++ devs is hard nowdays?
Cheers,
FastCGI C++ vs. A Script Language (PHP/Python/Perl)