hello All,
--- On Mon, 8/25/08, Florin Andrei florin@andrei.myip.org wrote:
From: Florin Andrei florin@andrei.myip.org Subject: [CentOS] slow Perl on CentOS 5 To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Date: Monday, August 25, 2008, 1:30 PM If your Perl apps are unusually slow on CentOS 5, have a look at this blog:
http://blog.vipul.net/2008/08/24/redhat-perl-what-a-tragedy/
In a nutshell: some Perl apps are 100x slower on RedHat / CentOS 5 compared to other distributions.
Bugzilla entry:
ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/SRPMS/perl-5.8.8-40.fc8.src.rpm
Using the above SRPM, I've updated perl on 2 LAMP boxes, i386 and multi-lib x86_64.
The bless/overload bug is absent and perl is improved overall, especially any CPAN test code that uses the Test-Harness. I'm seeing approx. 25% speed increase in all the test suites.
In case anyone else is looking for a quick solution to the bug in 5.8.8-10, I believe this is a good approach.
The only gotcha is that the Fedora perl suite uses a separate perl-CPAN, while the RH suite includes it in core perl.