Same problem here. I'm packaging a wxPerl app, and the packaged binary
is usually about 4-5sec for the first run. Subsequent runs (without
rebooting Windows) are usually faster.

I would think this is the result of the executable unpacking the .exe
into the actual Perl components?



Michael Herger wrote:
>  Hi!
>  
>  Part of our software suite is a PerlApp packaged GUI application (using  
>  Wx). Due the used library the resulting file is rather large (~9MB).
>  
>  As we've had some complaints about slow startup, I've done some testing.  
>  In order to give an early visual feedback to the user, I've added a splash  
>  screen as early in the code as possible (simplified code):
>  
>  #!/usr/bin/perl
>  
>  require 5.008_001;
>  
>  use strict;
>  use File::Path;
>  use File::Spec::Functions;
>  
>  use Time::HiRes qw(time);
>  my $x = time();
>  
>  # don't use Wx, if script is run using perl on OSX, it needs to be run  
>  using wxperl
>  my $splash;
>  my $useWx = ($^O !~ /darwin/ || $^X =~ /wxPerl/i) && eval {
>      require Wx;
>  
>      Wx::Image::AddHandler(Wx::ICOHandler->new());
>      my $bitmap = Wx::Bitmap->new($'SqueezeCenter.ico',  
>  Wx::wxBITMAP_TYPE_ICO());
>      if ($bitmap) {
>         $splash = Wx::SplashScreen->new($bitmap);
>      }
>  
>      require Wx::Event;
>      require Slim::GUI::ControlPanel;
>  }
>  
>  print time() - $x;
>  ...
>  
>  Running this code from the source will give me the splash screen within a  
>  fraction of a second. Running the .exe file would take several seconds to  
>  get it shown. No matter whether I'm using any of the nocompress, clean or  
>  dyndll options. The simple timing ($x) would result in an approximately  
>  50% longer runtime for the $useWx evaluation.
>  
>  Is this performance hit to be expected? Is there anything I can do to get  
>  the startup performance closer to the one running from source?
>  
>  Full code can be found here:
>  http://svn.slimdevices.com/slim/7.4/trunk/server/cleanup.pl
>  (please note that the splash screen is not checked in, but was only added  
>  locally to test with)
>  
>  Executables:
>  http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.4
>  
>  Regards,
>  

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