On 11 January 2012 17:36, Father Chrysostomos via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > And BTW, I’d like to get rid of this PL_sawampersand madness (thereby > closing about 6 RT tickets), but my first attempt failed, and my second > attempt is awaiting a response from Nicholas Clark on the status of > PERL_OLD_COPY_ON_WRITE. Should I have a look? Also if you are looking into this stuff also keep in mind that scalar /g is still a problem, and keep in mind why my patch to fix it was reverted (to prevent quadratic performance degradation in while (//g) matches). > (And that reminds me: it’s not just /p that looks to me like a bug > workaround, but also SelectSaver.pm.) /p was definitely a work around. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next