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I'm not sure you are not completely correct on this. I know he's Mac (Linux plus GUI) based and that Slashdot runs on a *nix based servers but Perl on Windows seems quite inefficient. CYG-Win (or whatever it is) just does not cut the mustard. MC
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Cygwin is not Perl, it's a unix emulation layer. It lets you run Perl, along with a lot of other software, but you're running the unix version inside an emulated shell, and the performance is poor. A little googling will show why. Slimserver is using ActiveState Perl, which is a Windows build. I develop with it as well, though nothing of the complexity of Slimserver. There is no measurable performance difference in my simple or complex scripts between ActiveState Perl running on XP and Perl.org Perl running on SuSE. Slimserver may conceivably have a performance difference based on OS, but I rather doubt that it has anything to do with Perl on Windows, until someone can step up with some numbers to prove otherwise. I am definitely willing to believe that it's a little slower on OS X, which is not so hot with multi-threaded applications like mysql (http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436&p=8). Even there though, I doubt that there's a lot of impact on the Slimserver specifically. -- "I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, So across the Western ocean I must wander" -- traditional _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
