Re: RFC 155 - Remove geometric functions from core

[Hildo Biersma]

Tom Christiansen wrote:
> 
> >If the behind-the-scenes shenanigans are invisible and performance is at
> >worst acceptable, does it really matter how things are implemented?
> 
> So long as you can still say things like
> 
>     perl -le 'print scalar getpwuid(1)'
> 
> and that script still continue to work unaltered, then I suppose
> not--assuming no seriously grave performance issues.

One thing to consider for many of these functions - does the performance
matter?  Yes, sin() and cos() need to be fast.  getpid(), getpwuid() etc
need not - a program that uses them will call them once, or twice, and
not in an inner loop.

Hildo