On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:24:59AM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Its the principle of the thing. Also, not initializing $Verbose and > $MaxEvalLen seems going a little overboard espcially when it violates the > docs. Finally I threw in "our" onto the globals so one can turn on strict > during testing. And a version bump.
your patch increases final memory usage by 460 bytes, and total mallocs by 1200 bytes. > The next target for "use less 'memory'" should probably be Exporter. Exporter's already pretty tight. -- The perl5 internals are a complete mess. It's like Jenga - to get the perl5 tower taller and do something new you select a block somewhere in the middle, with trepidation pull it out slowly, and then carefully balance it somewhere new, hoping the whole edifice won't collapse as a result. - Nicholas Clark, based on an original by Simon Cozens.