use bytes bug in SA

[Ugo Bellavance]

Steve Freegard wrote:
> Julian Field wrote:
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>> Does this only affect Solaris?
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> Nope.
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>> Or has anyone produced the same behaviour on Linux, being the 
>> "platform of choice" for many people?
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> Yes - in Ugo's case this behavior was on Linux (CentOS 3 and CentOS 4).

Mostly CentOS 3 showed very big performance hit.

>> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>>> Anyone got hit by this?
>>>
>>> http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5590
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>>> Everytime I upgrade SA, I must add 'use bytes' in SpamAssassin's 
>>> Message.pm to get decent scan time.  The speed penality is considerable.
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> I'd guess it could be related to:
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> http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5440
> 
> Which indicates that the issue was a Perl bug in the regexp handling 
> which was fixed in Perl 5.8.8.

I wonder why redhat didn't backport the fix...