Re: Perl 6 and byte code

Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bytecode files on-disk are > shared across all the processes in the system, so you only get one > in-memory copy of a file, which saves both RAM and load time if you're > using a file that another process is usi

Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain internal time in Modified Julian (not epoch)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Midnight, Jan 1, 2000, Greenwich time > > seems like a good candidate. have found 2000-03-01 to be a good epoch. It makes -mm-dd decoding and leap year calculations cheaper/simpler as it is the closest start of a new 400 yea

Re: GC

Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 01:35 AM 8/4/00 -0400, Ken Fox wrote: > >Simon Cozens wrote: > > > Ref counting isn't garbage collection. > > > http://www.jwz.org/doc/gc.html > > > >Please explain that to Richard Jones and Rafael Lins who have > >written a beautiful book surveying g