Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bfmny0!tneff
From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Super Macho Hackers! (was Re: Novice Questions)
Message-ID: <15163@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 7 Feb 90 13:27:43 GMT
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In article <20620@watdragon.waterloo.edu> ccplumb@lion.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb) writes:
>I wonder if anyone's set the sticky bit on their Perl yet.

You better believe it!  I rebuilt the kernel with a larger cache just
for the purpose, too.  Perl has a horrific latency on AT386 UNIX boxes
in general, which is the biggest drawback to using it as a common tool
here.  Keeping it loaded works wonders!  

I strongly recommend setting the sticky bit for all Perl lovers on
UNIX/386 platforms.