Item617: "extremely slow performance for certain critical operations" warning is broken for Perl >5.008009

Using Perl v5.10.x, configure will always display the following warning:

This version of Perl is likely to exhibit extremely slow performance for certain critical operations.
Please consider recompiling Perl. For more information, see
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/PerlOnRedHatIsSlow
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=196836 and/or
http://blog.vipul.net/2008/08/24/redhat-perl-what-a-tragedy/
http://lists.scsys.co.uk/pipermail/dbix-class/2007-October/005119.html.

This is due to a rather obfuscated part of code in Foswiki/Configure/Checkers/CGISetup.pm, lines 112-116:

        sub _possibly_has_bad_overload_performance {
            return $] < 5.008009 && !_has_bug_34925();
        }

        if ( !_possibly_has_bad_overload_performance() ) { (warning as mentioned above) }

The second negation in the last line is apparently wrong--not only is it confusing to issue a warning if the installation in question is not possibly exhibiting bad performance, but this test will fail for Perl >5.008009 (i.e., all current distros--that's why I set this to priority "normal" instead of "low").

(According to Olivier, _has_bug_34925 should also rather be called _hasnt_bug_34925)

• MarkusUeberall - 31 Dec 2008

Update: Kenneth suggested to remove the entire check and add a note in the documentation as (a) RedHat issued an update in the meantime and (b) his tests before/after that patch didn't show any differences for a Foswiki installation using the default plugins. Therefore, we shouldn't spend that much time to fix the warning as it shouldn't occur in the first place nowadays...

• MarkusUeberall - 02 Jan 2009

removed - I have to trust that you guys know whats best for RH users - I don't use RH often enough.

• SvenDowideit - 03 Jan 2009