Re: Perl 5.6.0 Is Here!

[Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com>]

According to Daniel Martin:
> Joey Hess <joey@valinux.com> writes:
> > 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?)

There is some permanent penalty, but there is also a startup penalty.

In my opinion, it's OK for mod_perl to take a minor hit because it's
intrinsically so much faster.  But maybe that's just me.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg              - a.k.a. -              <chip@valinux.com>
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