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Nathan Torkington
Date:
January 13, 2001 08:28
Subject:
Ideas for papers
Message ID:
14944.32885.827490.828033@prometheus.frii.com
I see Simon Cozens planning to do a Conway at this year's TPC, with a
half-dozen papers. In the interests of not having Simon's papers
outnumber the rest, here are some topics you might want to consider
papers or talks on:
- how Perl's RE engine works (jhi?)
- Perl's grammar: what's in yacc, and what's in toke.c
- an analysis of the Unicode implementation: what's working, what's
broken, how to make it better
- B::* -- how they work, which work, what needs to be done
- come up with an alternative to XS and say why it's better (Inline?)
- work out how to precalculate the hash values for things like
UNIVERSAL and main:: and other commonly hashed strings, and see
what kind of performance win results (if any)
- tell us why EBCDIC and Perl seem to be sworn enemies
- report on Configure: what it does, how, and why
- come up with a new use for the dump() keyword
- profile and decide whether the pp_* distribution is correct (i.e,
are all the hot ones really in pp_hot?)
- ...
Nat
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