On 11 Apr 2011, at 02:24, E R wrote: > Hi all, > > On x86_64 I noticed that perl .so files (XS modules) appear to use a > lot more memory than they do on 32-bit architectures.
It's not just .so files. The footprint of our whole mod_perl processes pretty much doubled when we went to 64 bit (including a self-compiled perl with full 64 bit internals). It's the price to pay for 64 bit! Are you using the A::S that's in the repo? It has fixes for calculating sizes...
