If I understand you correctly you are suggesting a load/execute time of the order of 5ms. That is comparable with hard drive (spinning rust version) seek times. So what you are measuring is simply the OS's overhead for loading and executing Perl and Perl's overhead for loading, compiling and executing your script. Given your script is essentially a no-op, you are asking us to guess why your OS and hardware are performing differently than some other past combination you had. We are supposed to do that how? And it matters why?

If you are running a web server and that represents overhead in page fetches there are ways to mitigate the problem. Is that the question you should be asking?

Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond

In reply to Re: What can effect perl startup time? by GrandFather
in thread What can affect perl startup time? by nysus

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