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On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 02:08:48PM +0000, Michael Stevens wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 02:21:34PM +0100, Johan Vromans wrote: > > And, my dear Stephen, how much is the slowdown for an average Perl > > program? > > If you could give us the url to the average perl program, we can quickly > and easily test this. *please* can you give us the URL to the average perl program (or suitable sane benchmark suite) so that we can test all sorts of optimisations (hint - if you want perl to go faster at something, write a slow regression test that uses lots of that thing. Over time it will bias patches in favour of speeding up that test) Failing any URL or suitable benchmark, I'm likely to continue testing on the regression suite, which means that users of Complex.pm will see benefits. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next