Hm, the CPAN page for JE has this: "It also uses and leaks lots of memory."

Yeah, good point, I missed that initially, it's definitely something worth testing. I would hope that if the JE object gets destroyed, it cleans up all of its memory, so that might be a simple workaround.

Startup time for the interpreter is 85 ms, which is not great

Initially you said "in my actual use case the performance hit might be undetectable to the person (me) using the GUI" - what kind of performance are you looking for here? Is this code going to be called in a tight loop, how often, etc.?

In reply to Re^3: Extending a perl program with Scheme, Lua, or JS by haukex
in thread Extending a perl program with Scheme, Lua, or JS by bcrowell2

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