[pm-h] RedHat patch causes slodowns on Perl

Chris Blanc cblanc at dionysius.com
Wed Aug 27 10:46:49 PDT 2008


Hi,

I don't know if I've posted to this list before (insert pithy statement 
of personal disorganization) but this article made me steam a little:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/08/why_corporates_hate_perl.html

I think everything in it is true, and I've seen this situation in 
progress at past jobs. People like to blame the tool, and find a trend 
to purchase instead, than get down to the hard work of making machines 
do what you want them to do.

I'm no Perl expert, but I've applied it in enough situations where it 
has done wonders to question the wisdom of anyone who says it's not a 
fit solution. I do think it's a victim of its own success; the same 
"typing error" style that makes it sometimes efficient for an expert can 
make it anathema to others, and rather than admit their inexpertise (or, 
God forbid, crack a book and figure it out) they blame the tool.

</rant>

Chris

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 07:27:06AM -0500, G. Wade Johnson wrote:
> Important message on PerlBuzz about a bug on RedHat that causes massive
> slowdown's in Perl.
> 
> http://perlbuzz.com/2008/08/red-hats-patch-slows-down-overloading-in-perl.html
> 
> G. Wade
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