Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-24 Thread Stephen Zander
As the proud owner of that particular patch, I guess I should say something... :) > "Daniel" == Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> Ok, I've looked at it. Daniel> I really don't know quite what to do with this. On the Daniel> one hand, automatically reading

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-21 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
"Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Daniel Martin, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > >My... it's been a while since I was investigating perl internals > >(writing C code that was callable from perl) - at least two years, >

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-19 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Daniel Martin, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >My... it's been a while since I was investigating perl internals >(writing C code that was callable from perl) - at least two years, >which somehow seems much longer. > >Well, I'll have my machine down

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-19 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Daniel" == Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Daniel> It's a perl thing. I can almost guarantee it. The > Daniel> problem is perl's shadow password support and it's getpw* > Daniel> functions. Whenever these fun

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-19 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Daniel" == Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> It's a perl thing. I can almost guarantee it. The Daniel> problem is perl's shadow password support and it's getpw* Daniel> functions. Whenever these functions are called (and Daniel> assigned to a varia

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-19 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Chris Fearnley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 12:38:45PM -0500, Richard Kaszeta wrote: > > Christopher J. Fearnley writes ("Re: Serious performance bug in Perl"): > > >to call it (instead of the default perl - 5.004.04-6). Performance

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-18 Thread Chris Fearnley
No, I am not running NIS. Just simple text /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 12:38:45PM -0500, Richard Kaszeta wrote: > Christopher J. Fearnley writes ("Re: Serious performance bug in Perl"): > >to call it (instead of the default perl - 5.004.04-6). Perf

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-18 Thread Dale Scheetz
d now. If 2.0.7pre3 isn't an improvement over pre1, then I need to know about it, and what is causing it so I can complain upstream about it ;-) Thanks, On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Richard Kaszeta wrote: > Christopher J. Fearnley writes ("Re: Serious performance bug in Perl"): > >

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-18 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Christopher J. Fearnley writes ("Re: Serious performance bug in Perl"): >to call it (instead of the default perl - 5.004.04-6). Performance >improved several hundred-fold. So I believe the problem is either in >perl or libc6. > >Any suggestions on how to resolve th

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-18 Thread Christopher J. Fearnley
On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 04:43:13AM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: > Chris Fearnley, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > >But yesterday I upgraded a bo system to hamm which has a 3000 line > >/etc/passwd. Now adduser takes OVER ONE MINUTE to find a UID and GID > >for the new use

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-16 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:' > >Chris Fearnley, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >>But yesterday I upgraded a bo system to hamm which has a 3000 line >>/etc/passwd. Now adduser takes OVER ONE MINUTE to find a UID and GID >>for the new user. And my staff is complaining about the

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-15 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Chris Fearnley, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >But yesterday I upgraded a bo system to hamm which has a 3000 line >/etc/passwd. Now adduser takes OVER ONE MINUTE to find a UID and GID >for the new user. And my staff is complaining about the wast

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-14 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Wichert Akkerman wrote:' > >Previously Chris Fearnley wrote: >> But yesterday I upgraded a bo system to hamm which has a 3000 line >> /etc/passwd. Now adduser takes OVER ONE MINUTE to find a UID and GID >> for the new user. And my staff is complaining about the wasted time. > >Are you sure it's

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Chris Fearnley wrote: > But yesterday I upgraded a bo system to hamm which has a 3000 line > /etc/passwd. Now adduser takes OVER ONE MINUTE to find a UID and GID > for the new user. And my staff is complaining about the wasted time. Are you sure it's a problem with perl? I've had the