Ive observed a 5-10% reduction in the speed of the regex benchmarks ive been doing while working on my regexp patches fom the const patches alone. I upgraded blead (unfortunately I dont recall which patch) and watched the regex benchmarks uniformly drop.
I dont have the experience to offer anything more than that, but im curious if people have been running benchmarks etc while doing this work? Is this likely to be compiler/os/hw related? Should i ignore it? Yitzchak suggested i read http://groups-beta.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/31769984daffa3b9 which seems like it could be an explanation, but id be really happy if anybody could offer more wisdom on this. Cheers, Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
