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Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de) wrote:
: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> writes:

: >Oh my! But perl really is very slow to start up: on my abysmally slow
: >and overloaded sparc classic, it takes 4.58 user seconds and 14.22
: >systems seconds to run an empty perl program -- ONE HUNDRED TIMES.
: >That's a whopping 0.0458 user seconds and 0.1422 system seconds per
: >run.  Obviously this is too much overhead for a small program.

: 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 :(

Time to get a Real OS, Gert.  My 486dx2-66, 8 Mb RAM takes as _much_
as 1 second (elapsed) to start up perl4.036, if I make sure none of it is
in RAM before I start (pretty easy with only 8M).  Once perl is sitting
around, elapsed time for 
$ time perl -e 'print "\n"'
is about 0.33 seconds.  I have tried the same thing on a Pentium-90
with 16M RAM, and I have trouble seeing numbers over 0.1 second.
With perl5.001, numbers like 0.03 to 0.05 second are more typical.

What's my OS?  Why, Linux, of course ;^)
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     - Larry Doolittle   ldoolitt@cebaf.gov