At 05:16 PM 8/4/00 +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
>Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Indirect calls might not be a problem, depending on how much flow analysis
> > we can do in the optimizer. While that won't be much in the
> > on-the-fly-compile version (a 10s runtime with a 50s compile time's not a
> > good thing...) I'm hoping the optimizer will be able to get darned
> > aggressive when given free rein.
>
>I wonder if something like the java hot spot on the fly profiler thing
>might not be handy for long running perl processes...
Lots of things would be. Whether they're part of the reference
interpreter's a separate question, of course. Stats gathering is a
reasonable thing to plan for in the opcode interpreter.
Dan
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