perl bless/overload performance problem on RHEL

[Andy Wardley]

Elliot Moore wrote:
> http://blog.vipul.net/2008/08/24/redhat-perl-what-a-tragedy/
>  (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379791)

And here:

   http://use.perl.org/~nicholas/journal/37274

Which says:

   "So to be fair they are still asleep on the job. Where's I'm awake and doing
    this stuff for free."

That's the real tragedy IMHO.  Some RedHat dude is getting paid to make a mess
of Perl while Nicholas works for free to fix it.  They should cut out the
middle man.

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