Re^4: Perl: friend or foe ?

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I seem to recall of some tests that tried this approach for perl, and that the resulting binary was so huge, that it turned out that recompiling perl from source was actually faster, than loading this huge binary from disk.

Can anybody confirm or deny this anecdote?

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Re^5: Perl: friend or foe ? by merlyn (Sage) on Apr 25, 2005 at 00:04 UTC
I can confirm that it's an anecdote. {grin} But I do also recall the same thing, somewhere back in the early perl5 days. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]

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