* Johan Vromans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-06-19 11:25]:
> But deferring compilation of, say, 25% of the code?
I don’t know how much there is to be saved.
The other option I can think of is kind of wild: do the
option specification parsing/processing that has to be done on
every invocation, regardless of the user input, just once, and
then cache the results somewhere – possibly as Perl code in the
__DATA__ of the caller or some such, much like SelfLoader works.
> Besides, I try to avoid using "eval STRING" at almost any cost.
> It introduces the risk of having code that suddenly starts
> failing under specific circumstances.
Well, I avoid “eval STRING” in regular code as well (motto: “it’s
generally a red flag”), always preferring other means if they are
available. But I’ve never had any problems with it when I used it
with constant strings solely to defer compilation.
Do you have any specific examples of what you are referring to?
Regards,
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