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Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 10:28:49 +0000
From: Burhan Nazir <burhan@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: slow perl string concats on FreeBSD 4.5
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I tried your code on two machines, one running freebsd4.4, the other a red
hat 7.1 install (similar hardware config).

Freebsd=36seconds
RedHatLinux=6 seconds

I am not sure why there is such a big difference in speed.  Anyone got any
answers for this?

-Burhan

Raistlin A. Majere wrote:

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> I'm trying use perl on FreeBSD and am having huge performance issues.  I
> took a script off a linux machine and ran it on my new FreeBSD machine
> and what took 9 seconds on linux is taking 56 seconds on FreeBSD.  The
> machines run identical hardware and both run perl 5.6.1.
> 
> I wrote a little test program to demonstrate the differences in speed of
> execution.  Does anyone know how to make perl concat strings more
> efficiently?
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> $result ="";
> $begin = time;
> for ($i = 0; $i < 1000000;) {
>         $i++;
> 
> #comment the following line to get freebsd perl to run as fast as linux
> perl
>         $result .= "$i\n";
> }
> $duration = time - $begin;
> print "duration = $duration.\n";
> 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> -=Raistlin Alexander Majere
> 
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