On 21 Jul 2004 at 15:17, Stephen Pick wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using PAR 0.85, and I'm wondering what on earth PAR is doing on the first-time > execution of a stand-alone executable built with it. I use the following command to > build my exe: > pp -vv -M utf8 --gui -o app.exe app.pl > > The packing process is reasonably quick, but on the first execution I have to wait > up to twenty seconds for my application to actually start. I know that PAR is > extracting the modules required to run the script to a temporary directory on the > first run, but it surely should not take this long. WinRAR can extract a .par archive built from the same script (including base modules) in under a second.
How does the first time startup compare to the speed if you "set PAR_GLOBAL_CLEAN=1" before running the app, so it's not cached? Alan Stewart
