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From: Ben Morrow on 25 Jul 2010 18:20 Quoth "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2(a)hjp.at>: > > I wish Perl would fight for each byte at the low level. The overhead for > each scalar, array element or hash element is enormous, and these really > add up if you have enough of them. Take a look at sv.h from a recent perl sometime. The contortions it goes through to avoid allocating anything not absolutely needed are quite incredible (and, incidentally, make C-level debugging really rather hard). Ben |