SQL & PL/SQL

I read some of related threads, but couldn't find any good suggestions about the performance issue to fetch the result set from a stored procedure.

Here is my case:
I have a stored procedure which will return 2,030,000 rows. When I run the select part only in the dbartisan, it takes about 3 minutes, so I know it's not query problem. But when I call the stored procedure in DBArtisan in following way:

declare cr SYS_REFCURSOR;
firstname char(20);
lastname char(20);
street char(40);
city char(20);
STATE varchar2(2);
begin DISPLAY_ADDRESS(cr);
DBMS_OUTPUT.ENABLE(null);
LOOP
FETCH cr INTO firstname,lastname,street, city, state;
EXIT WHEN cr%NOTFOUND;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE( firstname||','|| lastname||','|| street||',' ||city||',' ||STATE);
END LOOP;
CLOSE cr;
end;

It will take about 100 minutes. When I used DBI fetchrow_array in perl code, it took about same amount of time. However, same stored procedure in sybase without using cursor, and same perl code, it only takes 12 minutes to display all results. We assume oracle has better performance. So what could be the problem here?

The perl code:

my $dbh = DBI->connect($databaseserver, $dbuser, $dbpassword,
{ 'AutoCommit' => 0,'RaiseError' => 1, 'PrintError' => 0 })
or die "couldn't connect to database: " . DBI->errstr;

open OUTPUTFILE, ">$temp_output_path";

my $rc;
my $sql="BEGIN DISPLAY_ADDRESS(:rc); END;";
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql) or die "Couldn't prepare statement: " . $dbh->errstr;
$sth->bind_param_inout(':rc', \$rc, 0, { ora_type=> ORA_RSET });
$sth->execute() or die "Couldn't execute statement: " . $sth->errstr;
while($address_info=$rc->fetchrow_arrayref()){
my ($firstname, $lastname, $street, $city, $STATE) = @$address_info;
print OUTPUTFILE $firstname."|".$lastname."|".$street."|".$city."|".$STATE;
}
$dbh->commit();
$dbh->disconnect();
close OUTPUTFILE;

Thanks!

rulin