Re: Re: Speed of 5.8.0 versus 5.6.1

samtregar,
Not that I doubt you, but I would be very much interested in hearing where you came across this so frequently that you chose "pretty much the accepted"? I typically don't care about speed at home (running 5.8), but really need it at work (5.6.1).

Cheers - L~R

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Re: Re: Re: Speed of 5.8.0 versus 5.6.1 by samtregar (Abbot) on Jul 02, 2003 at 21:09 UTC
Around the time 5.8.0 came out there were threads on perl5-porters analyzing the performance of 5.8.0 relative to earlier releases. My foggy memory of the discussion features the "50%" figure prominently. -sam	[reply]
Re^4: Speed of 5.8.0 versus 5.6.1 by adrianh (Chancellor) on Jul 03, 2003 at 10:03 UTC
The only performance issues that I'm aware of in 5.8 are: The debugger can be a lot slower in 5.8. I think this has already been fixed in bleadperl. There is a new hashing algorithm which may give worse behaviour in some circumstances. In general however it should give better performance. The pervasive unicode support can slow things down (e.g. regexes on unicode are slower than regexes on ASCII) - but you can switch that off. There were, of course, a lot of performance enhancements in 5.8 too. So it comes down to what you do. Personally I've not noticed any performance difference.	[reply]


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