At 06:34 PM 3/12/2007 -0400, Nelson R. Pardee wrote: >If I haven't run any Perl programs in awhile, it takes a bit to start up. >Subsequent executions startup pretty quickly. Is this possibly a caching >of Perl itself by Windows? other? 2 Ghz processor, 1 G ram.
Ur exactly right. Once u run Perl once, the files get stored in the system cache. The slowest part of the execution is physically reading the files off the hard disk. Once that's done, and it's in the cache, the program can load pretty fast. -- REMEMBER THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ---=< WTC 911 >=-- "...ne cede malis" 00000100 _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
