On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 02:00:11PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:47:37AM -0400, David Golden wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:43 AM, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> > > wrote: > > >> Ick. POSIX. That's heavy. > > > But has been in core since the dawn of time. > > Yes, but I don't want to impose a load penalty for every test that > > gets sent if tests happen to be run in completely separate processes > > when a two-line replacement will serve. > > On this 'ere machine, the time difference between these two: > > $ perl -e0 > $ perl -MPOSIX -e0 > > is under a hundredth of a second. And that's on an eight year old box. > That said, just sprintf does the job just as well. > > OK, it was *2* hundredths of a second before POSIX.pm got cached.
I've no opinion on this issue but wanted to point out that a lot of that time is spent importing the hundreds of symbols that POSIX exports. Just asking for the specific symbols you want would be even faster. Tim.
