* Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> [2011-09-02 16:10]: > Which it still does. Previously via AutoLoader (in that the > rarely-to-never used functions sit on disk, taking up no > memory), now via a custom AUTOLOAD routine (which I suspect > means that they actually take up more memory now) On the order of a few kilobytes: a handful of strings inside of a hash. OTOH if POSIX.pm was the only code in some program that used AutoLoader (fairly likely) then that no longer needs to be loaded, which saves a few hundred kilobytes and tips the balance far into net gain territory. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>Thread Previous | Thread Next