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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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Growing Up
2005-12-21 16:30 in /life
I’ve been amused to note recently a couple more indications that we’re becoming real grown-ups.
This is the fourth winter we’ve spent in this house, and it’s the first time we’ve had a full-size tree. The first year we got one of those little rosemary trees, which was cute and we decorated with tiny ornaments and dried red chiles, but the next two years we didn’t bother. This year, we actually have a decent size tree in our living room, and we spent a scary amount at Smith and Hawken on fancy ornaments. Something I like is that because we were a bit uncomfortable with the traditional angel or star, the top of our tree is decorated instead with this interesting bundle of dry colorful leaves and berries.
The other recent event of note is that we actually bought some real curtains for our bedrooms. We’ve been doing it student-style with extra sheets for way too long.
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