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? -- Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk