Re: RFC 155 - Remove geometric functions from core

[GregLondon]

Dan wrote:
>At 09:12 AM 8/25/00 -0400, Stephen P. Potter wrote:
>>  As you say, 200 lines isn't much.  But combine that with the IPC, the
>>environment, the system, etc it all adds up.
>
>Not to much, though. We've been down this road for perl 5. You'd be
>surprised at how little code gets removed if you yank most of the
functions
>under discussion. (They're generally trivial wrappers around library
calls,
>with very little code involved)

so is all this concern about the size of perl due to the hope
of making perl "embeddable"? with 128 meg of ram and
a 40 gig drive, I'll assume its not due to system limitations.

Greg London