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Fast Startup Times
2005-12-21 17:04 in /tech/perl
There’s a bit of a misconception in a recent perl.com article about startup times of perl scripts. The author asserts that the time spent finding and loading modules in a long PERL5LIB would be reduced if Perl was a compiled language. This is generally untrue, as anyone who has straced a C program as it starts up and seen the barrage of stats and opens when dynamically loaded libraries are searched for in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. True, you can statically link a compiled program, but it’s pretty rare in my experience.
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