On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Mark Pryor <tlviewer at yahoo.com> wrote: > hello All, > > --- On Mon, 8/25/08, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote: > >> From: Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> >> Subject: [CentOS] slow Perl on CentOS 5 >> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at 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: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379791 > > 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. > -- > Mark This perl discussion thread has moved to the centos-devel mailing list. Please see: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2008-August/003144.html and join in that thread if you wish. Thanks, Akemi