Hello,
I'm currently bitten hard by a bug which was introduced by RedHat in their perl releases. This bug has been fixed "recently", to be true in January, by RedHat.
The bug I'm talking about is a performance issue, which is caused by overloading blessed functions: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2357
The bug fix (January 2009): http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0117.html
claims to fix 379791 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=379791 - perl bless/overload performance problem
I wanted to ask if we can expect CentOS to release a new version of perl soon, or if we should rather tend building our own packages. I'd prefer the CentOS update, due to the reason that I don't know if we'll have the same problems with this in mod_perl as well.
Kind regards, Georg