Why dynamic modules loading is so slow?

[tabaar]

I have my M$ VC++ program that has embedded Perl interpreter (perlembed man). Perl script can use modules. But why such construction use IO::Socket::INET; works so slow (on my old Pentium 100 it tooks about 3 secounds to interpret) ?!
So my question: how to make it faster? Maybe static compilation of modules to my program can help? Or executing scripts in one interpreter instance (perlembed man)? Help me please...

 

[MikeLacey]

Tabaar,

A P100 is not, nowadays, a particularly fast machine I'm afraid. It may be that 3 seconds is reasonable for that module.

Have you tried timing the same script with standard Perl instead of the embedded interpreter? Is the speed the same? Mike
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[tabaar]

Have You seen the size of standard Perl executable in Win32 (perl.exe)? In my ActivePerl it is about 30K... It means that it includes Perl56.dll as my program do and do the same things as described in perlembed man. So the time for interpretation is the quite same as in my program. { sorry for my English }

 

[MikeLacey]

Well yes -- thought it might be, but worth asking.

What about different machines? Is it significantly faster on a newer machine? Mike
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