On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > Akemi Yagi wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> 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/ >> >> Summary: The Upstream Vendor version of Perl has a patch to the >> "bless[]" function that makes it /extremely/ slow. > > Reliable info heard on the grapevine indicates 5.3 would have the fix's > required. > -- > Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq Actually, this is stated in the upstream bugzilla Florin referred to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379791#c11 see also #14. However, according to the bugzilla, their fix is still not perfect and they are "working on it" (as of today). Akemi