On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 14:04:04 -0700 Amit Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, I'm using Centos7.1 and mimedefang 2.75 (still need to upgrade to > latest). The documentation indicates that if you start mimedefang with > the -E parameter, it uses embedded perl which is supposedly faster. I > was wondering if someone could give me insight into why it's actually > faster under the hood? The speedup comes because with embedded Perl, the multiplexor does not have to fork/exec a Perl process. I don't think it's significantly faster, but it probably helps a little bit. > Also, should embedded perl be enabled by default? Yes. It can't hurt. > I see a --disable-embedded-perl option in the configure script. I did > not configure my system to disable embedded perl, however when I try > to experiment with the -E option, mimedefang complains that I did not > enable embedded perl.. If you didn't have the Perl development libraries installed when you compiled MIMEDefang, it won't have support for embedded Perl. Regards, Dianne. _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
