Hi! If you run that test on an desktop machine, you will see that that the 'Getopt::Long' version is almost 5 times longer that the 'Getopt::Std'.
On my x86 system : p...@pim-linux:/tmp/testperl$ time perl -e 'use Getopt::Long;' real 0m0.038s user 0m0.028s sys 0m0.008s p...@pim-linux:/tmp/testperl$ time perl -e 'use Getopt::Std;' real 0m0.007s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.004s So this numbers seems normal. This problem is not related with perl, it is related to something slow in your architecture (system calls, context-switch, ...) so this wish should go to the kernel or libc page... Best regards Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org