On Jul 23, 2006, at 8:10 AM, Chris Dolan wrote:
On Jul 23, 2006, at 8:01 AM, Johan Vromans wrote:
John Peacock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
The pure Perl implementation is newer, but no less stable.
So what is the reason to continue the XS version, except maybe as a
separate module for the few cases that require speed?
As John said yesterday, the XS version is the reference
implementation and the PP version is a port.
I don't really get that - what does "reference implementation" give
us? Does it just mean that if there's a bug in it, we can't fix it?
Or that there's not a complete set of documentation describing its
behavior?
The wikipedia entry doesn't really seem to apply here, in any case:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_implementation
-Ken
