Package: perl-base Version: 5.10.0-25 Severity: wishlist This is a wishlist bug. I wish I could parse long options with perl on an openmoko neo freerunner faster. I do not have much insight on profiling perl but I thought I should report this issue here so that other people are aware of it.
Currently Getopt::Long is takes about four times longer to start than Getopt::Std and totals to about one second: li...@ginger:~$ time perl -e 'use Getopt::Long;' real 0m1.004s user 0m0.865s sys 0m0.120s li...@ginger:~$ time perl -e 'use Getopt::Std;' real 0m0.228s user 0m0.150s sys 0m0.075s This is very unfortunate as it forces one to either use cryptic short options, suffer significant slowdown or resolt to writing a shell script that can use the fast getopt binary: li...@ginger:~$ time getopt -o v --long verbose -- "--verbose" --verbose -- real 0m0.051s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.040s -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: armel (armv4tl) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-GTA02_lindi-andy-tracking-mokodev (PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages perl-base depends on: ii dpkg 1.15.3.1+b3 Debian package management system ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-2 GCC support library perl-base recommends no packages. Versions of packages perl-base suggests: ii perl 5.10.0-25 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
