If at all possible, you might want to get perl5.6. From here:

Similarly, Perl can now process files larger than 2 gigabytes on computers that support them. Just add -Duselargefiles to your Configure, and off you go.

I assume this means that everything pre 5.6 could not handle >2gb files.

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