as mentioned in my side message to you, Perrin, i'm looking to 5.8.1 for its unicode support. specifically, to make it easy to output XML in UTF-8 as an OAI (Open Archives Initiative) repository.
On 3 Nov 2003, Perrin Harkins wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 12:21, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > > Have you some benchmarks to back up this affirmation or is it only > > an opinion ? If you have benchmarks, I know quite a lot of people > > that would be interested. > > I've been running benchmarks of various IPC modules, like MLDBM::Sync, > DBD::MySQL, etc. A version of 5.6.1 with all defaults taken runs them > about 50% faster than the version of 5.8 that shipped with Red Hat 9. > Granted, I heard that 5.8.1 made some gains in dealing with the overhead > of unicode and Red Hat's Perl may be compiled with thread support (known > to slow things down a lot), but I'd be surprised if 5.8.1 was as fast as > 5.6.1. > > - Perrin > > -- > Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ > Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html > > -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html
