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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
July 8, 2010 07:47
Subject:
Re: Directions of perl 5 development - requests from companies
Message ID:
20100708164738.30f2c458@pc09.procura.nl
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 16:24:48 +0200, Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at> wrote:

> 2010/7/8 H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>:
> > On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 16:23:45 +0200, Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at> wrote:
> >
> >> But I get a lot of benchmarks and feedback from the real-world, which I
> >> try to analyse.
> >> 5.6 is still the fastest by far, all non-threaded of course, then 5.8.9,
> >> then 5.10, then 5.12. But some newer modules don't work with these
> >> old modules anymore.
> >
> > Better example needed, as this seems to fall within the noise ...
> >
> > perl-xxx -we'$a="x" x 2000000;$_=index$a."zz".$a,"azz"'
> >   elapsed pass perl
> > ========== ==== =================
>> [snip]
> 
> Very very interesting. I'm pleased, but it contradicts the reports I
> got elsewhere.
> 
> Is there a mix threaded/non-threaded somewhere?

It is planned, but that might take some time, as I am not motivated to
add a threaded branch for all of this

> 5.8.0 is essentially the same as 5.6.2 but much slower.
> 5.8.9 slower than 5.10.1 and 5.10.0?
> 
> A much bigger spamassasin test or Benchmark::Perl::Formance
> would be really interesting.

All I need is a command line that will work on all the perls I support
If that line contains a script with valid perl, that would be ok

-- 
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