Serious performance bug in Perl

[Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com>]

Hi,

Originally I thought that it was OK that bug #19085 which I submitted
about poor performance in perl was downgraded from "important" to
"normal" severity because it only affected one application that I
wrote.

But yesterday I upgraded a bo system to hamm which has a 3000 line
/etc/passwd.  Now adduser takes OVER ONE MINUTE to find a UID and GID
for the new user.  And my staff is complaining about the wasted time.

I fear that this perl bug is serious.

But I haven't heard anyone else complain (I have been remiss in
reading the lists lately).  Am I the only seeing severe performance
degradation with Perl 5.004_04 ?

Can anyone else with large password files duplicate the problem?

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