On Dec 3, 2007 11:25 AM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Creating a hash is expensive, but then new_from_string was also quite > rare (only implemented on 4 PMCs), so isn't a huge target for optimization. > careful... one of these PMCs is FixedIntegerArray. FIA is used to set the flags for parrot calling conventions, so it's constructed every time a subroutine is entered or exited. i'd prefer to see new_from_string go away, but it seems to me benchmarks are in order due to the amount of times this code is likely to be called in a typical program.
~jerry
