Greetings,

I am using PAR-0.86 with ActivePerl 5.8.6 for Win32 to generate an executable from a script. My code totals about 500 lines, but I do use several modules. The generated EXE is about 3.3 MB in size. The program runs fine, but the first time I run it on a given machine, it seems to eat 100% CPU on that machine for about 30-40 seconds before it begins to do its real work. This is on a fairly recent desktop computer with a P4 and 512 MB RAM. I'm wondering if I could reduce it either with a configuration change, or by switching to one of the commercial Perl exe-generators such as PDK or Perl2Exe. Some of the modules I'm using, such as LWP, Tk, and XML::LibXML are pretty large. If I could eliminate one or more of them would that likely make a big difference?

Cheers

In reply to [Win32] PAR-generated .exe consuming excessive CPU on initial load by Errto

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