Front page | perl.perl6.internals |
Postings from January 2002
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:37:24PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > I think we're going to switch over to some sort of key creation op, but I'm > not sure at the moment. Constant keys are easy, of course--they can be > thrown up into the constants section, built at compile-time. Do constants with precomputed hashes buy us enough to overcome the extra memory needed to store the integer for the hash as well as the string? On and off I've been playing with this in perl5, but it seems to be impossible to make a benchmarkable difference (either faster *or* slower) Nicholas Clark -- EMCFT http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/CV.htmlThread Previous | Thread Next