On winXP this code runs more than 100 times faster under 5.6.1 than under 5.8. Maybe due to PerlIO? I tried to tell PerlIO to go away with :Win32 :crlf. No help. Can someone please tell me how to make 5.8 run this code as fast as 5.6.1 

 $| = 1;
 undef $/; # or not if slurping to array.
 
 my $file;
my @file;
 my $START_TIME = time;

 my $filename = 'C:\Documents and Settings\ron\My Documents\FGwing\new
+_rptgen\DATA\run001\ENG_mod.262-08_41_43'; # substitute your own big 
+file
 
 open (FILE, "$filename") or die "can't open $filename";
 
 $file = <FILE>; # or @file= <FILE>;
 
 sub END{
     my $END_TIME = time;
     my $RUN_TIME = $END_TIME - $START_TIME;
     print STDOUT "\n\n Phew, that took $RUN_TIME seconds.\n\n";
 }

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In reply to 5.8 slowed relaitve to 5.6.1 (by PerlIO?) by ronh

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