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> > More detail: > > There is definitely a difference between 5.6.2 and 5.10.0, but a far > more significant difference is brought about by using different mallocs: > > With 5.10.0 the freeze takes about 2.7 secs with the system malloc and > 0.03 secs with perl's malloc. > With 5.6.2 it takes about 0.9 secs with the system malloc and 0.03 secs > with perl's malloc. > > Not sure why the system malloc figure is slower with 5.10.0, but if the > 0.03 secs is more like the time that you were seeing previously, could > it be that your 5.6.x build was using perl's malloc and now your 5.10.0 > build is using the system malloc? (ActivePerl builds use the system > malloc because perl's malloc currently doesn't work with "-D > PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS", which is required for the fork() emulation.) > Good find. And that pretty much leaves me up a creek. I can't really use a self-built Perl for Production in my situation, and the supplied one is far, far too slow. Maybe I'll have to find another distribution source or stay on 5.6.Thread Previous | Thread Next