Actually, for all the perl work I've done on Solaris, I've used the gcc-built perl and the gcc suite from sunfreeware. Much easier to get real work done with that.
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At least the last time I compared them, gcc produced code that was quite noticeably slower. Now this doesn't matter if you're writing your code in perl (if speed were all important you'd use C or FORTRAN or some related evil), but it does matter for some XS modules.
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gcc works well (and is even shipped) with Solaris 9 and later. Before that gcc worked well for xs, but you needed to get it from sunfreeware or some other packager.
-Waswas
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Actually I believe that the Sun Forté compiler is now available for free for Solaris 10, but I haven't looked closely.
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