Prymmer/Kahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> And UTF-EBCDIC is _a_ UTF "8" - it is 8-bit and is UTF. It just isn't UTF-8.
>
>That is the problem I think: it is not UTF-8 and documentation that
>mentions that encoding form could be construed as misleading for EBCDIC
>platforms.  I'll take a look through the current pods to see...

I would gladdly 

   s/UTF-8/UTF-8 (UTF-EBCDIC on EBCDIC plafroms)/g

on all the pods 

if it meant we can carry on 

   use utf8;



>> >just checking the wall clock time (as opposed to running under `time make
>> >test`) it seems that the heap allocation speeds things up _tremendously_
>> >(enough such that we ought to consider changing miniperl.c in
>> >5.6.1-trial3).
>> 
>> I didn't change the initial allocation (or not by much) - that 
>> may be worth tuning.
>
>As a follow up to this issue, I tested 5.6.1-trial3 with and without
>that allocation in miniperlmain.c and the results, including failure rate
>and time to completion were roughly the same with or without the
>allocation patch applied.  

Shame, and there was me with a vision of an "Operator" somewhere 
pressing a key to say "yes it is ok for that job to have another 32K" ;-) 

-- 
Nick Ing-Simmons

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