Re: [Boston.pm] 64 bit perl boost?

2006-06-21 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jun 21, 2006, at 10:23 AM, James Eshelman wrote: I have a large O-O perl system running on Fedora Core 3 ( I know, it's old! - that's a separate subject) on Xenon 64-bit processors. The perl interpreter is only a 32-bit app. Anyone have an idea how much performance boost we're

Re: [Boston.pm] 64 bit perl boost?

2006-06-21 Thread James Eshelman
Thanks Sherm. It looks like there might be some benefit for high-end users who are likely to go beyond 4GB VM but we can postpone it 'til then. - Original Message - From: Sherm Pendley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: James Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: boston-pm@pm.org Sent: Wednesday, June

Re: [Boston.pm] 64 bit perl boost?

2006-06-21 Thread Ben Tilly
Double check where the limit is. It may well be 2 GB. Ben On 6/21/06, James Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Sherm. It looks like there might be some benefit for high-end users who are likely to go beyond 4GB VM but we can postpone it 'til then. - Original Message - From:

Re: [Boston.pm] 64 bit perl boost?

2006-06-21 Thread Ricker, William
At work, the 64bit Power4/Power5 IBM AIX systems come with 32-bit Perl. After reading the README, I wasn't interested in building everything in 64-bit, so when I build a Perl to build DBI with, I build it with similar settings to the vendor's (unsupported, contributed) 32-bit Perl. If one of my

[Boston.pm] pretty-printing messages

2006-06-21 Thread Federico Lucifredi
Hey Guys and Gals, can anyone remind me how that pretty-printing module that El Damian showcased the other year was called? It was able to handle plurals (x file/s deleted), even irregular ones, among the many things ;-) I am not sure if it was the same module, but it certainly was the same

[Boston.pm] pretty-printing messages

2006-06-21 Thread Federico Lucifredi
Hey Guys and Gals, can anyone remind me how that pretty-printing module that El Damian showcased the other year was called? It was able to handle plurals (x file/s deleted), even irregular ones, among the many things ;-) I am not sure if it was the same module, but it certainly was the same

Re: [Boston.pm] pretty-printing messages

2006-06-21 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 14:59, Federico Lucifredi wrote: can anyone remind me how that pretty-printing module that El Damian showcased the other year was called? It was able to handle plurals (x file/s deleted), even irregular ones, among the many things ;-)