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.