Re: TIL redux (was Re: What will the Perl6 code name be?)

[Dan Sugalski]

At 08:33 PM 10/23/00 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
>as for ziggy's comments on the overload of builtins issue there could be
>a simple dispatch table used instead of direct calls. it would be fast
>with just an indexed lookup based on the op code id.

FWIW, this isn't all that fast. I tried it with perl 5, and saw a rather 
significant performance hit. ~20% IIRC, but the numbers are in the p5p 
archives somewhere.


                                        Dan

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