On 29 Sep 2009, at 22:12, Oleg Pronin wrote: > 5.8 !!TWICE!! slower at startup than 5.7 under any perl version. This > is annoying because i have 100 models and i do not want to wait 10 > secs while it is starting in debug. Patches welcome to optimise things for your wacky use-case given appropriate NYTProf blame. Cheers t0m