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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
June 20, 2012 08:28
Subject:
whither PERL_[OLD_]COPY_ON_WRITE
Message ID:
20120620152837.GH3110@iabyn.com
Whatever happened to PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE? Was it a failure? Should
it be expunged, or revived? Or left to rot?

(I'm just looking at how the regex engine sometimes copies the match
string for capture purposes, and how COW would fix a bunch of stuff).


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