Stas Bekman wrote: > > The perl shipped with RH 9 (actually a 5.8.0 + lots of patches) > > is compiled with threads and with a shared libperl.so, two factors that > > are known to slow things down. I think that 5.8.0 is slower than 5.6.x, > > but not considerably. However I have no definitive numbers either. > > I know about the threads issue. But it's a first time I hear about a shared > libperl.so. Is it relevant to mod_perl? It gets loaded at the server startup > and I think produces no overhead at run-time. Or does it? Is it about > resolving symbols at run-time vs. PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1, which doesn't happen in > the static library?
For discussion about this, see the INSTALL file, section "Building a shared Perl library". You're right, maybe this doesn't impact mod_perl. PERL_DL_NONLAZY is only for XS modules (AFAIK). -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html
