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Re: PDD: Conventions and Guidelines for Perl Source Code

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From:
Larry Wall
Date:
May 9, 2001 10:16
Subject:
Re: PDD: Conventions and Guidelines for Perl Source Code
Message ID:
200105091712.KAA21764@kiev.wall.org
Dave Mitchell writes:
: My thinking behind "if fails on one, avoid on all" was that if it failed
: on at least one, then it may well fail on others that you dont have access
: to - either now or in the future, and thus perhaps isnt as good an optimisation
: as you figured. The other way would to be only enable for those architectures
: that experience a speedup.  

Makes sense.

Larry
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