Re: Static Perl

[Joost]

Is this really recommended?

I'm not sure. I think if you really want to improve perl loading performance, you'd just set the sticky bit on the perl executable.

In any case, I don't think it would matter for any situation where you're not exec()ing many perl interpreters a second, and some kind of persistent server solution - like mod_perl, fastcgi or a pure-perl server - would be much faster than anything this trick would offer.

[Thilosophy]

I think if you really want to improve perl loading performance, you'd just set the sticky bit on the perl executable.

Does the sticky bit still work in this way anywhere? According to Wikipedia it seems to be ignored (or used to do completely different things) on most operating systems (they mention that HP-UX supports it).

[Joost]

Interesting. APitUE2 says (page 102):

The saved-text bit ... is an XSI extension to the basic POSIX.1 functionality ... and is supported by FreeBSD 5.2.1, Linux 2.4.22, Mac OS X 10.3 and Solaris 9.

But from some of the examples on the Wiki page, it appears that only means the bit exists on those OSs, not that it's actually "sticky".