Re: What can we optimize (was Re: Schwartzian transforms)

[Uri Guttman]

>>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  >> This will probably be harder in Perl than in C because C can afford to
  >> take more time to do global optimization passes.

  DS> I'm hoping to have this stage of optimization in perl. Off by
  DS> default with a normal parse-and-go run (though certainly
  DS> enableable if you want), on by default with the bytecode compiler.

for long running daemon type programs, any extra optimization overhead
at startup will be well worth it. this would be a great win if it wrings
out a decent amount of speedup. or you could make it only doable for
bytecode and then you run that. this shouldn't be an issue with many
systems who want that optimization pass.

uri

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