Nicholas Clark:
# On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 11:46:34AM -0700, Scott Walters wrote:
# > Perl 5 runs *awesome* on a 486/25. Java (Kaffe) is completely
# > unusable.
# > AWT windows come up in a matter of *days*, whereas a Tk
# window comes up
# > in about 45 seconds. On a fast computer, these things are
# blurred. The point
# > is, you can thrash your system on a faster computer, but
# register renaming, a
# > large L2 cache, lots of disc bandwidth to thrash with etc
# obscured the fact
# > that you are wasting resources horribly.
#
# perl builds damn fine on a K5/133 with 16M of RAM.
# parrot now takes 4 hours in swap hell to compile the computed
# goto ops.
You can pass Configure a flag to disable computed goto (--cgoto=0), but
that won't help if you still want the functionality.
--Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
@roles=map {"Parrot $_"} qw(embedding regexen Configure)
He who fights and runs away wasted valuable running time with the
fighting.
