in reply to Can shmfs speed up Perl?

The "slow" startup is related to the fact that perl has to compile your script into a parse tree or "bytecode" (Yes, fellow monks, I read the recent discussions about the B:: modules). If you are running on a command line, I don't think there's much you can do about it.

OTOH, if you are running in a web environment, mod_perl can greatly speed up the load time. If you are calling a perl script over and over, you could rethink the way you are doing things and make the perl program a continuous program, and feed the data in via named pipe or something.

Is there a specific problem you are running into?

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Re: Re: Can shmfs speed up Perl?
by Elian (Parson) on Apr 27, 2003 at 00:44 UTC
    "parse tree" ne "bytecode".

    Definitely not the same thing. (Not too surprising, as they're essentially mutually exclusive)

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      Right, that's why I put that disclaimer in there. People have been calling the parse tree "bytecode" because of the B::* modules. But as has been said elsewhere, the B doesn't stand for bytecode. :P

      Which reminds me, I really should play with those a little bit.

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