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From:
Arthur Bergman
Date:
May 12, 2003 01:37
Subject:
Re: [perl #8860] [not RESOLVED] .pmc extension not documented in require
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DA0C9B98-8454-11D7-9B8A-000393CB5BC4@nanisky.com

On måndag, maj 12, 2003, at 09:43 Europe/Stockholm, Nick Ing-Simmons 
wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>
Why hide it?

I say keep it so people are encouraged to work on ByteCode or perhaps 
remove it and put it on the todo that ByteCodeloader should be 
implemented as a coderef in INC

Arthur


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