At 11:12 AM +0200 4/9/02, Peter Gibbs wrote:
>I don't think we are in a position yet to prove much of anything as regards
>real-world Perl programs, but just one data point as an example - using
>examples/assembly/life.pasm (changed to 5000 generations)
10% speedup in some circumstances. OK, I'm
I don't think we are in a position yet to prove much of anything as regards
real-world Perl programs, but just one data point as an example - using
examples/assembly/life.pasm (changed to 5000 generations)
[Pentium 166MHz; linux 2.2.18]
Clean CVS checkout (time averaged over 3 runs)
I've been thinking about this a bit, especially as I play catchup
with a few weeks of p6i mail. Here's my current thinking.
1) COW is useful and trivial in those cases where the original string
data is immobile. Constants, for example, or mmapped files.
$foo = "bar";
$foo _= "baz";
2)
