in reply to Re^2: perl binary size reducing
in thread perl binary size reducing

Then, this might be an occurrence of a rare phenomenon known as bit decay.

Did you put some plutonium in your program? If yes, you should probably try to remove it from the program.

;-)

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Re^4: perl binary size reducing
by sadat.ali.khan (Initiate) on Nov 28, 2013 at 07:36 UTC

    :) no plutonium at all in the code... not sure if perl devs here have ever come across such a strange thing

    running the 'corrupt' binary produces one of the following 2 outputs

    > seg fault

    > can't locate PAR.pm in @INC...

    seems like the bundled binary is 'losing' some libraries over a period of time