Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm, I wonder about this para from that file: > > --- > In terms of performance, on my test system (Solaris 2.5_x86) the perl > test suite took roughly 15% longer to run with the shared libperl.so. > Your system and typical applications may well give quite different > results.
I also found 15% slowdown with perlbench on Linux. > The whole point of using shared libs is that if there are more than > one app using the same library it gets loaded only once. I don't know > who wrote the claim above, but have you tried doing perl -le 'sleep > 1000 while 1' in another window (of course using the same perl) and > then start the test suite? This way libperl.so will be constantly > loaded and won't cause the loading overhead. The slowdown is not in the loading. The core perl code runs slower because it is compiled with -fpic to make it position independent when you enable 'useshrplib'. Regards, Gisle -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html
