Re: DateTime speed differences between perl 5.80 and 5.8.8?

This sounds like RedHat perl's nasty patch to make bless() slow in a
package with overloads.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=196836

Upgrading perl RPM to 5.8.23 or later should fix the problem.

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Erasmus Oblar <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm seeing some major performance differences between running DateTime on a
> redhat 3 vs redhat 5 system.
...
> Everything looks reasonable between the two machines, except for the *69
> seconds* taken by  machine B in DateTime->new line 181.
>
> Did something change regarding how expensive bless is in perl 5.8.0 vs
> .5.8.8?
>
> Is there a better way for this code to be written?  Any help would be much
> appreciated.  If you'd like any other details, please let me know.
>
> cheers,
> E
>



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Tatsuhiko Miyagawa