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RE: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL

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vkonovalov
Date:
July 3, 2001 02:20
Subject:
RE: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL
Message ID:
E3FB32585BF1D411B9E900805FF51A08074D94@RU0022EXCH001U
> Tracing through perlio.c shows how much EVIL it is.  All 80K 
> of it.  I 
> simply have no words for this code.  Extremely inefficient 
> and bloated,
> doing enormous amount of work for trivial tasks - not even mentioning
> how buggy it turns out to be!   Apparently the principal task 

I've reported similar thoughts a couple of months ago - see attached message.

Additionally, there are several places where local temporary variables assigned just to make further assignment less verbose. ("buf" in PerlIOStdio_read function is an example).

IMHO while idea of perlio.c is good, and it allows cool things, it's implementation could be cleaned greatly.

Best wishes,
Vadim.
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