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This just in:
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. Most of us do
not write that kind of of fancy Perl, but a lot of us use one of
the 1500+ CPAN modules that do. The slowdown can be over 100x
with some programs. This affects Fedora 9 as well as the various
version 5 distros.
TUV-patched Perl version 5.8.8 also breaks the Math::GSL package
that I wrote about a few days ago. It runs fine with 5.10 .
What to do? Some people are downloading and recompiling Perl;
we have version 5.8.8, while version 5.10 is available . A few
are abandoning Perl. A few are abandoning TUV-inspired distros.
A few are buying way more hardware than they would otherwise need.
Since some of the scientific community (especially the life sciences)
are running huge amounts of Perl, this is probably a Big Deal. We
should explore the problem further with TUV and the CentOS community.
If a fix is not forthcoming from TUV, I reluctantly suggest that we
get together with the CentOS people and fork this portion of the
distro, perhaps standardizing on Perl 5.10 . There are people
in the Perl community ready to assist us.
Keith
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