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“At my new startup, Slaant, we use a lot of perl.  We use perl for parsing massive amount of HTML/XML documents, we’ve written a homegrown RDF store in perl and we have a set of web applications built on  Catalyst.  We use OS X boxes for development and Centos 5.2 for production.  Last week we deployed new hardware - over 150 cores of CPU - expecting much higher data processing throughput along the pipeline of 30 or so perl sub-systems - but the performance boost seemed marginal and perl stood out as the culprit.  This was over a year of work, running on production scale hardware for the first time, and it wasn’t measuring up.  We almost threw perl out of the window.” source...