Re: JAVA vs. PERL startup time + memory

[Eric Fialkowski]

Just one idea that isn't completely thought through so forgive me if this is
ludicrous....

How about piping the output from the log into a FIFO/named pipe (read the
man page for mknod if you're not sure what that is).  Then you could have a
background process that is reading from the pipe.  That way, the process
should only need to be started once.