I wrote:
> On my Fedora 9 machine, the overhead to start plperl seems to be about
> 40 msec. This compares unfavorably to the time to start perl from the
> command line, which is under 4 msec. I see that /usr/bin/perl pulls in
> libperl.so, so it's paying the same shlib overhead as we do. How is it
> that we take ten times longer to start up?
The above number was for plperl in a SQL_ASCII database.
Some more data points:
plperl plperlu
SQL_ASCII 40 18
UTF8 67 18
which leads to the conclusion that those random little startup things
plperl does are just unbelievably expensive.
regards, tom lane