True - and irrelevant...

It's extremely relevant, if Perl doesn't actually compile all of that code. If your point was that Perl has to find and read all of those blocks from disk, that's fine. I didn't get that impression from your notes, however.

If you can suggest a faster way than to use CGI.pm in a script than that, I would be fascinated to know what it is.

Make sure CGI.pm is in the first directory in @INC.

To do this benchmark properly, make sure all of the modules you want to load are in the same directory, and preferably the first directory in @INC. If you really want to compare the weight of one module over another, you have to remove all other variations, and disk IO can be a very large variation, especially if compilation and execution time is minimal as in this case.

In reply to Re^4: Why can code be so slow? by chromatic
in thread Why can code be so slow? by freakingwildchild

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