On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:36 PM, Vic Norton wrote:
Another curiosity. I just checked out the Perl5.8.8 files in /usr/ bin and /opt/local/bin. The /usr/bin one came with Leopard, which I bought from Apple a week or so ago. It was created on Dec 7, 2007, and it weighs 48 KB. The MacPorts perl was created on Sep 5, 2008, and weighs 1.1 MB. Why, I wonder, should one Perl5.8.8 be 25 times as big as another?
MacPorts' perl is probably built with a static libperl. Apple's is built with a dynamic libperl.
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