Hello,<br><br>I&#39;m currently bitten hard by a bug which was introduced by RedHat in their perl releases. This bug has been fixed &quot;recently&quot;, to be true in January, by RedHat.<br><br>The bug I&#39;m talking about is a performance issue, which is caused by overloading blessed functions:<br>

<a href="http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2357" target="_blank">http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2357</a><br>
<br><br>The bug fix (January 2009):<br><a href="http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0117.html" target="_blank">http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0117.html</a><br><br>claims to fix<br><a href="http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=379791" target="_blank">379791</a> - perl bless/overload performance problem<br>

<br>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&#39;d prefer the CentOS update, due to the reason that I don&#39;t know if we&#39;ll have the same problems with this in mod_perl as well.<br>

<br>Kind regards,<br>Georg<br>