Re: different versions of Perl

2003-11-05 Thread Stas Bekman
Wilt, Paul wrote: Stas: Actually there is continued overhead due to the fact that different instructions (that require a larger number of cycles to decode / dispatch) are used when calling subroutines and / or accessing memory in a shared environment. That would be a very badly designed shared lib

RE: different versions of Perl

2003-11-05 Thread Wilt, Paul
- From: Stas Bekman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 4:17 AM To: Gisle Aas Cc: Rafael Garcia-Suarez; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: different versions of Perl Gisle Aas wrote: > Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >&g

Re: different versions of Perl

2003-11-05 Thread Stas Bekman
Gisle Aas wrote: Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hmm, I wonder about this para from that file: --- In terms of performance, on my test system (Solaris 2.5_x86) the perl test suite took roughly 15% longer to run with the shared libperl.so. Your system and typical applications may well giv

Re: different versions of Perl

2003-11-05 Thread Gisle Aas
Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm, I wonder about this para from that file: > > --- > In terms of performance, on my test system (Solaris 2.5_x86) the perl > test suite took roughly 15% longer to run with the shared libperl.so. > Your system and typical applications may well give quit

Re: different versions of Perl

2003-11-04 Thread Stas Bekman
Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: Stas Bekman wrote: The perl shipped with RH 9 (actually a 5.8.0 + lots of patches) is compiled with threads and with a shared libperl.so, two factors that are known to slow things down. I think that 5.8.0 is slower than 5.6.x, but not considerably. However I have no def

Re: different versions of Perl

2003-11-04 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Stas Bekman wrote: > > The perl shipped with RH 9 (actually a 5.8.0 + lots of patches) > > is compiled with threads and with a shared libperl.so, two factors that > > are known to slow things down. I think that 5.8.0 is slower than 5.6.x, > > but not considerably. However I have no definitive numbe

Re: different versions of Perl

2003-11-03 Thread Stas Bekman
Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: Perrin Harkins wrote: I've been running benchmarks of various IPC modules, like MLDBM::Sync, DBD::MySQL, etc. A version of 5.6.1 with all defaults taken runs them about 50% faster than the version of 5.8 that shipped with Red Hat 9. Granted, I heard that 5.8.1 made so

Re: different versions of Perl

2003-11-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 12:39, Todd White wrote: > as mentioned in my side message to you, Perrin, i'm looking to 5.8.1 for > its unicode support. specifically, to make it easy to output XML in UTF-8 > as an OAI (Open Archives Initiative) repository. You really do need to recompile mod_perl, just a

Re: different versions of Perl

2003-11-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 12:45, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > The perl shipped with RH 9 (actually a 5.8.0 + lots of patches) > is compiled with threads and with a shared libperl.so, two factors that > are known to slow things down. I think that 5.8.0 is slower than 5.6.x, > but not considerably. Howe

Re: different versions of Perl

2003-11-03 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Perrin Harkins wrote: > I've been running benchmarks of various IPC modules, like MLDBM::Sync, > DBD::MySQL, etc. A version of 5.6.1 with all defaults taken runs them > about 50% faster than the version of 5.8 that shipped with Red Hat 9. > Granted, I heard that 5.8.1 made some gains in dealing w

Re: different versions of Perl

2003-11-03 Thread Todd White
as mentioned in my side message to you, Perrin, i'm looking to 5.8.1 for its unicode support. specifically, to make it easy to output XML in UTF-8 as an OAI (Open Archives Initiative) repository. On 3 Nov 2003, Perrin Harkins wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 12:21, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: >

Re: different versions of Perl

2003-11-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 12:21, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > Have you some benchmarks to back up this affirmation or is it only > an opinion ? If you have benchmarks, I know quite a lot of people > that would be interested. I've been running benchmarks of various IPC modules, like MLDBM::Sync, DBD:

Re: different versions of Perl

2003-11-03 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Perrin Harkins wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 12:12, Todd White wrote: > > this system also has Perl version 5.8.1 installed. is there any way to > > use the 5.8.1 interpreter without rebuilding mod_perl? > > No, there isn't. Frankly, unless you really need something that is in > 5.8.1 you sho

Re: different versions of Perl

2003-11-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 12:12, Todd White wrote: > this system also has Perl version 5.8.1 installed. is there any way to > use the 5.8.1 interpreter without rebuilding mod_perl? No, there isn't. Frankly, unless you really need something that is in 5.8.1 you should stick with what you have. 5.6.1