In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (on 25 June 2005 12:05:02 +0200),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Merijn Brand) wrote:
>On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:26:56 +0100, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Would it make sense to replace the hardwired 2048 file descriptor reference
>> count array (used in perlio.c, defined in perlvars.h)
>
>In in favour of lifting hard coded limits, but I'd not like that to cause
>speed concerns. How about a stic set of, say, 32 fd's, and the rest fully
>dynamic?
Or the rest allocated 32 at a time?
>> For the various configurations of perl, are global variables always global
>> to perl${exe} ? Or can they end up in a shared library and hence have to
>> stay the same size to maintain binary compatibility?
Good question.
-Allen
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