Re: Shared padlists

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 05:34:45AM -0000, Father Chrysostomos wrote:
> If we could extend padlists to hold a boolean indicating whether the 
> sub is being called (i.e., !!CvDEPTH), then we could make sub clones
> share padlists.  If the padlist is in use when a sub is about to be
> called (and the sub itself has a CvDEPTH of 0), then that means the
> padlist is shared with another sub that is currently running, so it
> needs to be cloned.  The sub we are calling then keeps its own pad-
> list from that point on.

I worry that this adds a new test to every pp_entersub() call, and
involves a new flag that must be reset/restored on every sub exit
(deliberately or via dying), which may slow down all sub calls.

Also, is a boolean flag in the pad sufficient, or would you need a
counter, to handle recursion? Perhaps CvDEPTH should just be moved into
the pad?

So I like the idea in theory, but worry in practice.


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