title: Compiling Perl for Performance
body: <p>What different methods can be used to compile Perl differently, in such a way that would actually improve the performance of Perl scripts run on that machine? Though outdated, <a href="http://dan.corlan.net/bench.html" rel="nofollow">http://dan.corlan.net/bench.html</a>, seems to indicate that different performance results can be achieved by compiling things differently. Is that the case, or am I misunderstanding something?</p>
  
  <p>Are there any performance gains from not using a default Perl package (or one that is installed by default in Linux)?</p>