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demerphq wrote: > 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. :-) Okay, I'll look at setting up a smoke to test COW once a week instead of ithreads. I currently have VC6 on Mon-Thu, BCC on Fri, GCC on Sat and VC7 on Sun. I'd like to replace one of those VC6s with a VC8 (when all the VC8 changes have gone into maint), and I'll then make one of the remaining three do COW instead of ithreads. --Thread Previous | Thread Next