RE: perl starts very slow using WIN32::OLE

2008-09-05 Thread Jan Dubois
I suspect that some of your type libraries are stored on a network share and not local. This may make reading the library rather slow. You may want to use a tool like Process Monitor (from Sysinternals, now Microsoft) to see which files are being accessed by the Perl process during this call.

ActiveState releases ActivePerl 5.8.8.824 and ActivePerl 5.10.0.1004

2008-09-05 Thread Jan Dubois
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perl starts very slow using WIN32::OLE

2008-09-05 Thread armin . nolte
Hi, I have a real big perl program - it runs already for a couple of years and I am always adding some features. So since a few days it needs over 2 Minutes to start!!! I did a profiling and the problem seems to be the Win32::OLE::Const:::_Typelib So here is the actual output of the profiler: #