"Jeremy White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just completed some formal timings of one of my Perl/XS/C modules > running under Perl 5.6 and Perl 5.8. Both modules were built with gcc > version 3.4.2 (mingw-special) against Activestate on win32. > > Perl 5.6.1 (build 638 ActiveState) = 94676 iterations per second. > Perl 5.8.7 (build 813 ActiveState) = 68677 iterations per second. > > Quite a difference! No idea why...
Unicode would be my guess. Regards, Gisle
