Re: Perl 5.6.0 Is Here!
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 12:37:06PM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> According to Daniel Jacobowitz:
> > Both are miserable solutions, unfortunately :)
>
> The static-lib-in-shared-lib speed hit is particularly egregious for
> Apache because some of it happens post-fork, which forces all twenty
> (e.g.) apache processes to create their own private copies of what
> ought to be sharable code pages.
>
> Final analysis: Register-starved architectures suck.
Yep. But is the memory hit worse than the speed hit?
An interesting question...
Dan
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| Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University |
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