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Re: Does perl really need to use sigsetjmp? (18% performance hit)

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From:
Nick Ing-Simmons
Date:
January 9, 2001 01:11
Subject:
Re: Does perl really need to use sigsetjmp? (18% performance hit)
Message ID:
200101090911.JAA24234@mikado.tiuk.ti.com
Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison@uk.sun.com> writes:
>> Do we really need to use sigsetjmp?  Wouldn't a setjmp suffice?
>
>Hello, hello - any experts out there?  

Apparently not. I cannot at present think what sigsetjmp() gains 
us. Do you have an guidelines which say "use sigsetjmp() if your code does X?"


>I'm interested because I may well
>disable sigsetjmp on the next perl we ship...

Well that would be one way to find out what it was need for!


>
>Alan Burlison
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Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
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