Hong Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any advantage to use op instead of native implemented > function??? I believe the reason behind this issue is Perl XS API > sucks, it is much easy to write an op than a XS function. If Perl does > have a decent native interface....
I think a minimal core is a feature. Not minimal in the sense of trying to squeeze out the last op, but minimal in the sense that an operation whose time to completion is going to swamp the overhead of calling out into native code is implemented externally rather than as an op. Any kind of I/O falls into that category, IMO. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
