Perrin Harkins wrote: > 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.
The perl shipped with RH 9 (actually a 5.8.0 + lots of patches) is compiled with threads and with a shared libperl.so, two factors that are known to slow things down. I think that 5.8.0 is slower than 5.6.x, but not considerably. However I have no definitive numbers either. -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html
