Hi!

I have to do some perl embedding within a C program on some rather old linux systems. Because the OS is a bit older compiling the latest greatest tends to be a challenge (upgrading OS not an option currently) so I'm not going any higher on the perl version than I have to, probably >= 5.8.3 (on 5.6 now).

I've been going through the perl deltas to try and spot any especially significant changes to perl embedding as the versions have progressed. Significant perhaps meaning speed improvements or fixes to memory leaks.

My C program will be heavily loaded with a long running perl interpreter so I'm mostly concerned about speed and nasty memory leaks. When it comes down to it the perl side will essentially be doing a lot of work with strings.

Thanks for any suggestions, in the meantime back to browsing the deltas

cheers!

In reply to Best min. version of perl for use with C embedding? by falinf

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