Hi, thanks for your reply to my wish. I noticed it only now when I was going through old bug reports. Please keep [email protected] in Cc so that the emails reach me.
I think it is still a valid wish to hope that Getopt::Long would be faster. For example on a 500 MHz x86 system the same slowdown is visible compared to shell scripts that can use /usr/bin/getopt: li...@pulsar:~$ time getopt -o v --long verbose -- "--verbose" --verbose -- real 0m0.005s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.000s li...@pulsar:~$ time perl -e 'use Getopt::Std;' real 0m0.028s user 0m0.028s sys 0m0.000s li...@pulsar:~$ time perl -e 'use Getopt::Long;' real 0m0.154s user 0m0.152s sys 0m0.000s -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

