I have run across a problem in my local network communications, which should be lightning fast. Here is an example:

#!/idcom/bin/perl
use IO::Socket::INET;
use Time::HiRes qw( gettimeofday tv_interval );
use strict;

our $PORT = 9991;

if(fork) {
    my $s = IO::Socket::INET->new( LocalPort => $PORT, Listen => 5, Re
+use => 1 );
    my $c = $s->accept();
        while(<$c>) {
            print {$c} $_;
        }
}
else {
    sleep 1;
    my $s = IO::Socket::INET->new( PeerAddr => 'localhost:'.$PORT );
    for(1..5) {
        my $t0 = [gettimeofday];
        print {$s} "func=mbs_descriptive&type=";
        print {$s} "&secid=313627KM2\n";
        print ''.<$s>;
        print tv_interval( $t0, [gettimeofday] ),"\n";
    }

}

OUTPUT
func=mbs_descriptive&type=&secid=313627KM2
0.000458
func=mbs_descriptive&type=&secid=313627KM2
0.040329
func=mbs_descriptive&type=&secid=313627KM2
0.040905
func=mbs_descriptive&type=&secid=313627KM2
0.03986
func=mbs_descriptive&type=&secid=313627KM2
0.040938
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now if I change the code to use

print {$s} "func=mbs_descriptive&type=&secid=313627KM2\n";
instead of
print {$s} "func=mbs_descriptive&type=";
print {$s} "&secid=313627KM2\n";
<C>
I then get
<C>
func=mbs_descriptive&type=&secid=313627KM2
0.000448
func=mbs_descriptive&type=&secid=313627KM2
9.3e-05
func=mbs_descriptive&type=&secid=313627KM2
0.000161
func=mbs_descriptive&type=&secid=313627KM2
7.8e-05
func=mbs_descriptive&type=&secid=313627KM2
7.7e-05
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A lot of our code kind of piecemeal prints to a socket like this, what is going on, and can I fix it without completely redesigning and existing codebase?