Any help on the following subjects will be much appreciated:

1. Is perl a better option than PHP for web development. Why?
2. Do many hosting sites support perl?
3. Is perl faster than PHP in most instances?
4. Considerng that Zend purposely cripples php speed so that they can
sell/promote their performance products and perl is truly open, will
perl run at its maximum - especially with a compiler in perl 6?

6. Is compiled perl 6 code compatible with mod_perl and mason?

Thanks!