At 6:16 PM -0400 8/20/02, John Porter wrote:
>Dan Sugalski wrote:
>>  I expect a UINTVAL should be sufficient to hold the counter.
>
>Why?  Because you don't expect a perl process to run longer
>than a couple hours?  Or because rollover won't matter?
Rollover won't really matter much, if we're careful with how we 
document things. Still, a UINTVAL should be at least 2^32--do you 
really think we'll have that many GC generations in a few hours?
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                                         Dan

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