On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Matthew Cline wrote:
> Doesn't tying slow things down? If you did compile time type
> checking, this would take no perfromance hit. Also you could, say,
> add some opcodes for doing runtime checking, so that runtime
> checking would be faster than doing it with tying, but wouldn't bog
> SVs down with having to carry around too much more extra info.
> (At least, this is the impression I get from my limmited knowledge
> of Perl internals).
Except perl, because it is perl, and does perlish things, always needs
to do runtime checking. Removing automatic runtime checking in favor
of an op indicating runtime checking will double the size of the optree,
and make regular perl that much slower with everything else.
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