[Cialug] Perl performance on RedHat

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I wonder if this is problem that I was having on RHEL 3... I had some
perl code that converted html documents to PDF's.. I solved the problem
by switching to a compiled C program.

:) Dave

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 11:26 -0500, Eric Junker wrote:
> I thought some of you may be interested in this. I ran across this blog 
> post about poor Perl performance on RedHat, CentOS and possibly Fedora. 
> It seems there is a bug with bless/overload. Once the author applied a 
> patch he saw a 100x to 1000x speed increase. Even if your code doesn't 
> use bless/overload, many CPAN modules do.
> 
> http://blog.vipul.net/2008/08/24/redhat-perl-what-a-tragedy/
> 
> Eric
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