Re: Perl 5.6.0 Is Here!
Joey Hess <joey@valinux.com> writes:
> Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > Q: How about a shared libperl? Cons: It would require the libperl.so
> > to be on the boot floppy, and it would impose a performance penalty
> > of, what, 10% or so? Pros: It would allow mod_perl, vim, and other
> > tools that use Perl to use libperl.so, cutting total disk usage.
>
> I thought last time this came up there was a decision to make a libperl,
> just not link /usr/bin/perl itself to it. So there would be some
> duplication, but less than there is now, and this would be a bit smaller.
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1274960 Mar 26 09:08 /usr/bin/vim*
>
> I don't care if perl is 10% slower whewn I run it inside vim. I _do_ care
> if my cgi script on my production webserver slows down by 10%.
This concern would seem then to not only require perl to be built
without the shared library, but mod_perl as well. (Unless the
performance hit on using a shared library happens only at process
creation - does it?)
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