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First, I wish to express that the short-string PVs is a very interesting
PoC!
Also, the discussion around the PoC makes me want to skip work and hack
on this stuff instead. :)
On 30-03-17 18:07, bulk88 wrote:
> I once made a branch that eliminated SVt_NULL and #define-ed it
> to SVt_IV (both are bodyless, only difference is sv_any points to svu in
> a SVt_IV while sv_any is NULL on a SVt_NULL, why not always keep a new
> undef SV as an IV type unless otherwise upgraded, its just one CPU
> subtraction op and 1 write op at SV head alloc time).
While I really like this line of thought as well, I am concerned about
how much code does something like:
if (type == SVt_NULL) { ... }
or:
switch (SvTYPE(sv)) { case SVt_NULL: .... }
Perhaps some macro wizardry could help, but I think this kind of change
would be very hard to do without causing a lot of pain.
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