-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Moin,
On Monday 25 June 2007 23:31:25 Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 09:44:02PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > > Once upon a time there was talk of implementing a "less" pragma > > so you'd be able to say something like > > > > use less qw(memory); > > > > to indicate that cpu/memory balance should be shifted towards cpu. > > Pity that never happened. > > It's still on the todo list. It doesn't appear to have become a large > enough itch for anyone to scratch it. Probably because my PCs CPU speed has gone from 2 to 2.2 Mhz in the last years, while the memory increased from 1 to 2 Gb, and this only because I thought 3 or 4 Gb are overkill when my system with basically everything I have open never takes more than 600 meg gig, anyway. I have plenty memory to burn, but no CPU. And the recent shrinking of structs by some Nicholas guy will also help with the memory consumption. For embedded systems using as little memory is of course always desirable, but in the only case I had this problem, I just considered replacing the 12 Megabyte consuming Perl script with 1 megabyte consuming C program - and not slimming down the Perl script until it only takes 10 megabyte. (because that would have probably even more work than just to rewrite it in C :) So, yes, it wasn't a problem I had energy to solve :) All the best, Tels - -- Signed on Mon Jun 25 23:35:11 2007 with key 0x93B84C15. View my photo gallery: http://bloodgate.com/photos PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "helft den armen vögeln" -- gegen kleinschreibung -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRoA2IncLPEOTuEwVAQKNOgf+OERJBMY3C9hDRfU3qDEpV/0xfyBWMRun aUWMQXwBKijAVUdl0ohQeBM+brDFJA2t0LAcBPVEsilbJHv2GhJQuJNcomq1OoFR Pi8KDycKmLAqCzjUHotvFqKnhTubzOlg0UwWYmMRglU8pjGGEJU6OXntFX1D6Ggc FPrvvmqgvPEvHfQRYDSluBT1aZa1gyoIaeAKvuqmZKyE0Y8eLaquD1aO0p2h1NR4 9pEf1dH2ZBemYFJJ10yqyxnXMvyrs5stsyec+K5p2lLl0j5/AcEehbN+gF7oPnzA vFF3j2jQeLx2cvgMD+5UOHHyBVMqn8V1eRm7i0aj8K79wPkEll6chA== =P+ch -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
