sybperl-l Archive

From: mpeppler at itf1 dot itf dot ch (Michael Peppler)
Subject: Re: Perl5 startup speed
Date: Mar 18 1996 6:56AM

> From: "Dave Cleary" 
> 
> We are trying to convert some of our old sybperl (4) cgi scripts
> to use Perl5.  The good news is that most scripts work without
> modification (statements such as 'print "name@domain"' give an
> error about the un-escaped '@', which I can fix easily enough).
> 
> The bad news is that the startup time for perl5 is significantly
> longer than perl4!  Since the scripts are running in response to a web
> browser,adding 3-7 seconds to a 1 second script is quite noticable.

A couple of suggestions:

1. Don't use Sybase::CTlib.
   As you've noticed, the startup time is terrible at the moment, and 
   is largely due to the number of shared libs that have to be brought
   in. 

2. Use Sybase::DBlib - it's the fastest.

3. It may be possible to create a faster starting binary by
   linking all the Sybase libs statically into a new perl binary.

Michael