Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?)
