Has anyone tried compiling with perlcc?

[marcintustin]

Sqitch is pretty great but the raw start times are pretty bad. Has anyone tried compiling? Would the community be interested in a built in mechanism to sqitch to invoke compilation?

[theory]

I have not, no, but agree that the startup time can be pretty slow. There may be some fixes to be had to reduce it, in addition to compiling.

I last looked at startup time in 2014, when I committed 04e245e to load DateTime lazily, as it's a monster. Was great for commands that don't require DateTime, but that's not many, alas. I asked about the issue at the time; seems like maybe it doesn't need to load all of the locales. I'm not sure where things stand now.

I would be quite curious about compiling, though. If it works well, it would also simplify distribution.

[marcintustin]

Ok I’ll give it a go and report back Marcin Tustin

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[marcintustin]

So, it looks like both perlcc and persistentperl haven't worked with newer versions of perl for a looong time. So it's a nonstarter for anyone using anything newer than perl 5.18 :( If I hear of anything else I'll update but this is probably not the way forward sadly.