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
Georg Grabler wrote:
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.
This perl package will be in CentOS 5.3. I'm just astonished that there is another fix for that, as the "current" package in CentOS has this in the changelog:
* Fri Aug 29 2008 Marcela Maslanova mmaslano@redhat.com - * 4:5.8.8-15.el5.1 - add upstream fix for bless/overload problem (changes 31996,32018,32019, 32025) and perl-5.8.8-bug24254.patch. Without this patch had bless poor performance. - Resolves: rhbz#460308
Cheers,
Ralph
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Ralph Angenendt