At 2:59 PM -0400 6/5/02, Steve Simmons wrote: >My seat of the pants number say our current tools (which use DBI to >access databases) spend about as 10% of their CPU and wall clock time >in compilation. This is measured by deliberately running the tools >with an error (bad switch) vs running it correctly and comparing >the times. Go to a module/version/release seach pattern and a >ten-fold minimum increase in serach time . . . and you double the tool >run times. That's intolerable in our environment. I recently spent >a solid month peeling 9 seconds of per-tool overhead down to 1 second, >getting a documented(!) savings of 16.25 hours *per week* in our >operations group. The prospect of losing that time again with perl6 >is, er, not acceptable. Again, this argues towards indexes.
Nah. It argues for precompilation and a faster engine, both of which you'll get. :) -- Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk