Quite possibly the additional overhead from using TCP instead of sockets is negligible compared to the fact that Perl is a scripting language and the code that issues the actual queries and processes the results is written in Perl. Even portions of the DBI are written in perl and use various regular expressions against each query.
Quite possibly the additional overhead from using TCP instead of sockets is negligible compared to the fact that Perl is a scripting language and the code that issues the actual queries and processes the results is written in Perl. Even portions of the DBI are written in perl and use various regular expressions against each query.