ActiveState 5.10.1 has a Perl510.dll ... I noticed that the code is all compiled in Debug

Okay. I'm more used to the phrase "compiled with debug", rather than "compiled in debug". A small difference, but enough to cause me to question what you meant.

The other question I have is what evidence do you have for believing AS perl is compiled with debug?

When I use -V on a freshly downloaded 32-bit AS perl 5.10.1 install, I get this output:

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The significant portion of which is cc='cl', ccflags =... -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32?

In the source code they just call the CRT malloc/calloc/realloc, they don't do any magic with Win32 Heap APIs.

It is the CRT itself that uses the Heap apis...not Perl.

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In reply to Re^9: Why is Windows 100 times slower than Linux when growing a large scalar? by BrowserUk
in thread Why is Windows 100 times slower than Linux when growing a large scalar? by Anonymous Monk

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