On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 a.d., Nicholas Clark wrote: > I think that I had trying to make Config.pm less heavy in my TODO. > > as a start, I was considering surveying which values in %Config are > popular, to try to partition those from the vast majority, which are > deadweight in nearly every program. As %Config is a tied hash, I believe > that it can all be done transparently. Since Config.pm does an C<index> in a big string (which is fairly fast), I don't think you're gonna to win anything by splitting that string in smaller pieces and then putting there a complicated high-level logic to select between them. More could be win by slurping config.sh instead of putting it into a here document, especially on platforms with a bogus realloc. But config.sh is rather small anyway -- let's better talk about charnames: Please try this on a *BSD with the system's malloc: $ perl -e 'use charnames ":full"; print "\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A}"' Regards, AdiThread Previous | Thread Next