Re^3: Use of Autoloader in Modern Times

[jgamble]

...until you run a preforking server and want to take as much advantage of COW as you can.

Could you expand on that a bit? How does copy on write and preforking incline one to use autoloading?

My own personal preference is to avoid it like a plaguish thing, but even my most massive module isn't on the same order as some CPAN monsters.

(Update: fix the italics tags)

[chromatic]

If you have a preforking server and a modern operating system, you'll tend to save memory by loading everything before forking off children, because they'll share memory pages until something modifies them. That's the opposite of autoloading.