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Nicholas Clark wrote: > Finding a useful benchmark seems to be a holy grail. perlbench produces > pretty numbers, but they've not been showing any change in areas where > specific changes have been made that produced real performance improvements > in production code. So I'm not convinced that it's useful. > > The best thing that I can think of offhand is to take some batch-able > (hence repeatable) application program(s) and test them. I'm told > spamassassin is (a) a real resource hog and (b) something that even > die-hard perl haters will install /usr/bin/perl in order to run. > Would testing using spam assassin with a known fixed spam corpus > provide a suitable benchmark? > > It may not make all perl scripts go faster, but it would probably make > quite a lot of real world perl users happy. Thanks Nick, I'll pass the info on. -- Alan Burlison --Thread Previous