On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:06:53PM +0200, Tels wrote:

> On 02-Oct-02 H.Merijn Brand carved into stone:

Going to be a bit hard to change, then :-)

> > As a start for a `normal' interface to the interperters internals, this
> > time no open hack, but a neat interface.
> > Very open to additions.
> > Useful?
> 
> Is it accurate?
> 
> > Feedback please
> > 
> > 
> > NAME
> >       Devel-Internals - Perl extension for internal interpreter
> > statistics
> > 
> >  SYNOPSIS
> >         use Devel::Internals;
> > 
> >         my $end = sbrk ();
> 
> Can you please use a better name? sbrk() doesn't mean anything to me.

Trouble is that it's entirely accurate. If you know what sbrk() is in
Unix, then you know that this would return it. The value is not directly
memory used or anything like that. It's the current sbrk() :-)

Nicholas Clark

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