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On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 04:41:54PM +0000, sho_pi@hotmail.com wrote:
> I like this idea. However, as performance is still somewhat of an issue (and
> perl5, at least, eats immense amounts of memory even in C),
If perl6 is written in perl5, why can't we make memory/speed tradeoffs
explicit? For example, why couldn't we shuffle bits in and out of
SvTYPE? To me, it's all about capturing the logical relationships which
are implied indirectly by the present perl5 source code.
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