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in reply to Re: How much slower is perl (the binary) with threads than without?
in thread How much slower is perl (the binary) with threads than without?

While you're at it, do you have any feel for the overhead imposed by Unicode support?

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Re^3: How much slower is perl (the binary) with Unicode than without?
by CountZero (Bishop) on May 11, 2012 at 13:25 UTC
    Is there a Perl without Unicode support?

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      Is there a Perl without Unicode support?

      I wish :)

      At least with threading, if you do not need them, you can build a version without them.


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      Sure, 5.6.x :) also probably compiling perl without perliio removes many types unicode support, though i'm not sure if all