pgpenvelope slow after perl upgrade

[Frank Tobin]

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Stefan H. Holek, at 17:26 +0200 on Thu, 26 Apr 2001, wrote:

    After upgrading to perl 5.6.0 I found that pgpenvelope
    takes approx 7 seconds to display the first prompt/message.
    This is especially annoying when automatically verifying signed
    messages. Reading security related mailing lists becomes a real
    PITA.

    I am not familiar enough with perl to be able to tell why the slowdown
    occurred. It sure was a lot snappier with earlier versions (perl5).

    I am running perl 5.6.0 / pgpenvelope 2.9.0 / pine 4.31 on a 200Mhz PII
    Debian box.

First of all, this is a thing meant for
pgpenvelope-users@lists.sourceforge.net, not gnupg-users, so I'm cc'ing
there, and bcc'ing gnupg-users (don't want start nasty cross-posting).

This is very strange; I don't have 5.6.0 on any box I have access to, so I
can't reproduce this behaviour.  It's possible that 5.6.0 made it's
library-loading mechanisms slower, but I find it strange that it would
increase significatnly in a version upgrade.

I have heard bad things about perl 5.6.0 on #Perl.  Also, note that 5.6.1
is out.

Concerning signature verifications, I highly recommend using pgpenvelope's
procmail-filtering system, which pre-verifies signatures before your
mailer gets them.  How to set this up is documented in the pgpenvelope
manpage.

Also, pgpenvelope 2.10.0 is out (though no performance upgrades are in
it).

- -- 
Frank Tobin		http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
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