Re: perl IS an event loop (was Re: Speaking of signals...)

[Nick Ing-Simmons]

Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>At 01:02 PM 1/6/01 -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
>>that is what i would expect form a simple flag test and every N tests
>>doing a full event poll. and even up to 5-10% slowdown i would think is
>>a good tradeoff for the flexibilty and ease of design win we get in the
>>i/o and event guts. but then, i have always traded off speed for
>>flexibility and ease. hey, so has perl! :)
>
>Not always. :) The flexibility really does need to balance out the speed 
>hit. (If Nick wasn't in the middle of rewriting the whole IO system, I'd 
>probably be assaulting sv_gets to make up for the speed hit I introduced 
>way back with the record reading code...)

Nick has yet to touch sv_gets() - partly 'cos it was too scary to mess
with - so you can if you like ;-)

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