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From:
Larry Wall
Date:
December 20, 1999 08:39
Subject:
Re: Extra Scalar member of GVs for methods
Message ID:
199912201634.IAA01810@kiev.wall.org
Nick Ing-Simmons writes:
: This was presumably to avoid the extra 
: test so that GvSV was quicker than GvAVn - but this is of less value
: now that "most" scalar vars are presumed to be lexical.

Yes, I want lexicals faster than globals, but you guys keep coming up
with ways of slowing down globals instead of speeding up lexicals.  :-)

Larry
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