If I may follow up -- I am curious why the feature is to be disabled in 2.x? Not questioning the judgement, but wondering if it was determined to not be a worthwhile performance gain? Or is it just too complex internally despite the gain? I am always looking to squeeze the last bit of performace out of my servers, and thought this was a cool little trick :)
Also, without any understanding of the internals, it seems to me there may be a second problem: on subsequent requests the ref is still hanging around (as shown in the original sample output I sent), even though both the original scalar and the ref are lexically scoped. One would think they had been destroyed by then? Any clue as to what causes that? Is this small leak meaningful enough to worry about? In the meantime I'll prepare to stop using this feature! Unless of course you end up fixing it :) Thanks, Jonathan Field -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html
