Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket functions from core

[Nathan Torkington]

Dan Sugalski writes:
> One of the current plans is for the parser to have access to a list of 
> functions that trigger autoloading modules.

Isn't dynamic loading really slow?  If they're going to incur the
penalty of dynamic loading, you might as make them request that
slowdown by 'use'ing the module.  The alternative is that they
memorize a long list of functions, some of which are slow and some
of which aren't.

Nat