On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 10:59:04AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > >Which is exactly what Chip did in his safe-signals patch. 33% slowdown. > I think you misremember that number. IIRC it was somewhere between 3%-5%. Gosh, really? I thought it was so significant that it didn't go in core. If it was that small, why *didn't* it go in core? My main point, though, was that this discussion is actually many years old, safe signals in Perl is not a new problem, and it might be helpful to people if they learnt a few things about the history. -- MISTAKES: It Could Be That The Purpose Of Your Life Is Only To Serve As A Warning To Others http://www.despair.com
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- Re: perl IS an event loop (was Re: Speaking... Dan Sugalski
- Re: perl IS an event loop (was Re: Speaking... Jarkko Hietaniemi
- Re: perl IS an event loop (was Re: Speaking... Uri Guttman
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- safe signals (was Re: perl IS an event loop... Nicholas Clark
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