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Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@free.fr> writes: >Slaven Rezic wrote: >> Nick Ing-Simmons <nick@ing-simmons.net> writes: >> > >> > IIRC we decided that .pmc logic was going to be deprecated or deleted. >> >> Or maybe better to hide the logic behind #ifdef's. > >I'd like to hide it behind a "#ifndef PERL_USE_PMC_FILES". So long as the name of the define and the sense of the #ifn?def make sense. >So the functionality is here unless we want to build a perl tailored >for compilation speed (CGI applications come to mind.) For various devious reasons related to selecting versions of modules I often have lots of things in @INC - the extra (futile) attempts to open .pmc slows things down even more. > >Or do we really want to kill .pmc files ? That somehow implies >some lack of support for B::Bytecode. (not untrue.) Until bytecode loads faster than or is smaller than the .pm file I fail to see the point in it. It does not even hide much now that Deparse is so good. -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/Thread Previous | Thread Next