perl bless/overload performance problem on RHEL

[Dave Cross]

Elliot Moore wrote:
> 
> May interest anyone running stock perl on Red Hat 5, Centos 5, or Fedora 9
> 
> http://blog.vipul.net/2008/08/24/redhat-perl-what-a-tragedy/
> 
>  (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379791)

AIUI, the problem is with their builds of 5.8.8 - which is in current
versions of RHEL and Centos. And was in Fedora 8.

Fedora 9 contains a build of 5.10.0 which doesn't seem to exhibit this
problem.

Dave...