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Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org> writes:
>On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 12:02:01PM -0600, Dave Rolsky wrote:
>>> I do this in DateTime.pm:
>>>
>>> if ( $] >= 5.006 )
>>> {
>>> require XSLoader;
>>> XSLoader::load( 'DateTime', $DateTime::VERSION );
>>> }
>>> else
>>> {
>>> require DynaLoader;
>>> @DateTime::ISA = 'DynaLoader';
>>> DateTime->bootstrap( $DateTime::VERSION );
>>> }
>>
>> Here's a stupid question. If two lines of XSLoader is easily replaced
>> with three lines of DynaLoader... why use XSLoader at all?
>
>Supposedly it uses less memory and is faster, but I could be wrong since I
>don't really know what it's doing anyway.
Also the DynaLoader thing puts itself in ISA which means your
class inherits a bunch of things from DynaLoader you may not want.
>
>
>-dave
>
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