A few comments:
  1. Did you make the decision to not load unused functionality based on Benchmarking or was it an ephemeral "I don't wanna"? This sounds like premature optimization, to me ...
  2. Abigail-II is right - the system you have sounds very maintainable ... it's well factored - each extension does one thing, only one thing, and (presumably) does it well ... What's the problem?
  3. I have written something very similar to this for one of my current clients (with a little more pizazz). I load all my modules and it just runs. Optimization comes later, when SLA's are being violated ...
  4. If you absolutely need more performance, why not eliminate the extra Perl interpreter every run and make this into a web-type deal using Apache/mod_perl? You have a script that calls a CGI through port 80 ... that would be optimized ...

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In reply to Re: Is it wise to dynamically load modules? by dragonchild
in thread Is it wise to dynamically load modules? by kurt_kober

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