very low performance

Hello, Fastcgi Developers!

I've just written small fastcgi program. It loads jpeg picture from file and sends it to client. 256 Kb picture is loaded in 2 sec in my machine. This picture as static file is loaded through apache2 in only 0.030 sec.

I start the program in apache2 with mod_fastcgi.

So, there is question, is fastcgi really so slow or I missed some configuration tricks?

Best wishes, Tarasov Evgeny