At 09:17 AM 11/22/00 -0800, Dave Storrs wrote:
>On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>
> > Yet another bummer of the current SVs is that they poorly fit into
> > 'foreign memory' situations where the buffer is managed by something
> > else than Perl. "No, thank you, Perl, keep your greedy fingers off
> > this chunk. No, you may not play with it."
>
>
> Out of curiousity, when might such a situation arise? When you
>are embedding C in Perl, perhaps?
More often vice versa. INN embeds perl, for example, and uses it for spam
detection. When it builds scalars for perl to use, it uses the copy of the
article already in memory to avoid copies. (Given the volume of news and
the size of some news articles this can save a lot) You wouldn't want perl
messing with it in that case, since the string memory really isn't perl's
to manage.
Dan
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