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On 5/2/07, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:57:33PM +0100, Steve Hay wrote: > > Nicholas Clark wrote: > > > Oh. And I assume that smoking PERL_OLD_COPY_ON_WRITE wouldn't be useful > > either (judging by its name)? > > I'm not convinced. Right now I suspect that it will fail an assertion > somewhere in the regexp code (not tried, and typing faster than thinking or > trying, it seems - will take time to try) > > It's not un-useful. But it's not that useful either. > And it's sort of nice if it doesn't break, because it validates that all the > current "this is a write so you need to make a copy" logic is working. I agree it would be cool to know if it works... Especially as I'm likely to have been the person who broke it. :-) Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next