On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 12:45, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > 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.
Now that the dust has settled on 5.8.1, I will probably install it and run some of these same benchmarks soon. When I get some numbers, I'll post them. - Perrin -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html