One neat thing about Perl 5.10 is the mro package (Method Resolution Order).
But the neat feature that caught my eye is pkg_gen() http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.10.0/lib/mro.pm#mro::get_pkg_gen($classname) In mod_perl, we use PL_sub_generation to determine if our method cache (handlers) is still valid. That is unfortunately a single integer that's basically incremented every time a subroutine is redefined anywhere. So this means that when, say, Apache::Reload kicks in, it will invalidate the handler cache we have for every single module, not just the one we just reloaded. In 5.10, mro::get_pkg_gen($classname) gives you the same, except at a package granularity. Pretty cool optimization. When building against 5.10, we could make use of this I'd think. Just a thought. -- Philippe M. Chiasson GPG: F9BFE0C2480E7680 1AE53631CB32A107 88C3A5A5 http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/ m/gozer\@(apache|cpan|ectoplasm)\.org/
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