Re: Adding to @INC

[email protected] ("Sam Seaver")
Newsgroups perl.macosx
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Sherm Pendley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:36 PM, Vic Norton wrote:
>
>> Another curiosity. I just checked out the Perl5.8.8 files in /usr/bin and
>> /opt/local/bin. The /usr/bin one came with Leopard, which I bought from
>> Apple a week or so ago. It was created on Dec 7, 2007, and it weighs 48 KB.
>> The MacPorts perl was created on Sep 5, 2008, and weighs 1.1 MB. Why, I
>> wonder, should one Perl5.8.8 be 25 times as big as another?
>
> MacPorts' perl is probably built with a static libperl. Apple's is built
> with a dynamic libperl.

Would this mean that one version is 'faster' than the other?

Sam
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