On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Nico Erfurth wrote: > I thought about this, and i'm wondering how much ppl realy use it in > this way. IMHO it should be a "Don't try this, it will break", instead > introducing this copy-"workaround". But i think i will use this patch > only for my private-version, because i don't use such constructs ;)
Well, someone used it that way - I got it as a bug-report in an early version of HTML::Template. Maybe we could add an option like "no_loop_copy" that people could set on to get better performance? > I have to print out much lines in a big loop, and these two patches helped > me to decrease the memusage from 50MB per instance to 5MB, but i haven`t > checked both things seperatly. Well, that does sound significant. Please do determine which change caused this improvement. -sam
