[Mimedefang] Embedded perl

[David F. Skoll]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Henrik Schmiediche wrote:

> What is the advantage to Embedding Perl in the muliplexor?

Faster startup time and much less memory use.

> Why is it not enabled by default?

Because it's broken on some platforms.  It's fine on Linux,
mostly fine on Solaris 9, and all bets are off on other platforms.

The innards of Perl are very scary...

Regards,

David.