On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 09:41:18PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Right, but we then either: > > 1) Need to live with the performance and (lack of) side-effects tradeoffs > the library designer made > > or > > 2) Need to snag the code and beat it into submission ourselves. or 3) Work with the library designers as much as possible to fix up performance, efficiency, portability and everything else. This means we'll be making a much wider contribution than just Perl on its own. -- 10.0 times 0.1 is hardly ever 1.0.