🚀 go-pugleaf

Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> writes:

) In comp.lang.perl, 
)     gert@greenie.muc.de (Gert Doering) writes:
) :Ummm... on my SCO Unix machine (486dx2-66, 40 Mb RAM), it takes about 5-10
) :seconds to start up *per invocation*... now *that* is what I'd call slow
) :startup :(
) 
) Then something is really broken.  Taht's just brain-dead.  You're
) running wtih more RAM than I am.   I refuse to believe that my 
) Sparc Classic is 100-200 times faster than your 486dx2-66.  Bug
) in SCO, maybe?  Who'd'a thunk it?

I have seen 5 second load times on a 486-66 for the first
invocation or when it hasn't been invoked in a while and paging
has taken place.  Even though the system isn't busy to the point
of being slow, if paging is going on then the Perl shared library
gets swapped back out fairly quickly.  I don't think the worst-
case start-up times would be as high without a shared library,
but having dynamic loading (which requires a shared library on
UnixWare) is worth it.

The moral of the story is that you need to use Perl more!  Then it
will run faster.
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Tye McQueen                 tye@metronet.com  ||  tye@doober.usu.edu
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