Re: [ Memory ] Re: Thought

2002-10-05 Thread Tels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Moin, On 05-Oct-02 Slaven Rezic carved into stone: > Tels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> But shouldn't that be just the same, or slightly more (if the memory is >> used in chunks of, let's say 16 bytes, it might alloc up to 15 more).? > > The malloc system wi

[ANNOUNCE] Devel::Cover 0.20

2002-10-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Mostly this is a bugfix release. You'll need it if you are using AIX or threads. It also contains the start of cpancover, which will hopefully turn into something similar to cpansmoke. At the moment though it mostly just gives me more tests and more bugs to fix :-) http://www.pjcj.net/testing_

Re: [ Memory ] Re: Thought

2002-10-05 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 03:50:34PM +0200, Tels wrote: > Nevertheless, making your data structures smaller will help, even if in > some particulare case it doesn't reduce the heap usage directly. Yes, I found this to be true, but on my hitlist of things that make your perl script slow, it was numb

Re: [ Memory ] Re: Thought

2002-10-05 Thread Slaven Rezic
Tels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Moin, > > On 05-Oct-02 Slaven Rezic carved into stone: > > Tels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> > >> Moin, > >> > >> On 05-Oct-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] carved into stone: > >> > En op 5 oktober 2002 sprak Ann Barcomb:

Re: [ Memory ] Re: Thought

2002-10-05 Thread Tels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Moin, On 05-Oct-02 Slaven Rezic carved into stone: > Tels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> >> Moin, >> >> On 05-Oct-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] carved into stone: >> > En op 5 oktober 2002 sprak Ann Barcomb: >> >> I hadn't look

Re: [ Memory ] Re: Thought

2002-10-05 Thread Slaven Rezic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:24:12PM +0200, Slaven Rezic wrote: > > Not a module, but a function which should work on FreeBSD and Linux: > > Why not package this up and stick it on CPAN? Proc::Memory or > something. Because it'a another module to maintain :-) The fun

Re: [ Memory ] Re: Thought

2002-10-05 Thread Slaven Rezic
Tels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Moin, > > On 05-Oct-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] carved into stone: > > En op 5 oktober 2002 sprak Ann Barcomb: > >> I hadn't looked in to how I could solve my question, and because > >> it was given to me as a low priority task,

Re: [ Memory ] Re: Thought

2002-10-05 Thread Slaven Rezic
Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:35:14PM -0400, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: > > > If "what it does" is merely return the value of the C sbrk() function, > > then IMHO, sbrk() is a perfectly good name. > > > > However, as to other possible names -- how about P

Re: [ Memory ] Re: Thought

2002-10-05 Thread Tels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Moin, On 05-Oct-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] carved into stone: > En op 5 oktober 2002 sprak Ann Barcomb: >> I hadn't looked in to how I could solve my question, and because >> it was given to me as a low priority task, I wasn't sure I was going >> to have a chance to

Re: [ Memory ] Re: Thought

2002-10-05 Thread Andrew . Savige
En op 5 oktober 2002 sprak Ann Barcomb: > I hadn't looked in to how I could solve my question, and because > it was given to me as a low priority task, I wasn't sure I was going > to have a chance to either. But you can count me as someone who will > be very happy about the module :) I noticed C

Re: [ Memory ] Re: Thought

2002-10-05 Thread Ann Barcomb
Merijn wrote: > Wait a while. Ann Barcomb is working on this too. Let's collect all this into > one module and not release twenty or so that try to do the same. I'm not actually working on it...I just had need of such a module Thursday, mentioned to Jos what I had been trying to work on, and he s

Re: [ Memory ] Re: Thought

2002-10-05 Thread schwern
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:24:12PM +0200, Slaven Rezic wrote: > Not a module, but a function which should work on FreeBSD and Linux: Why not package this up and stick it on CPAN? Proc::Memory or something. It's a good start though you'll probably want to do it File::Spec style with Proc::Memory

Re: [ Memory ] Re: Thought

2002-10-05 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Sat 05 Oct 2002 01:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:24:12PM +0200, Slaven Rezic wrote: > > Not a module, but a function which should work on FreeBSD and Linux: > > Why not package this up and stick it on CPAN? Proc::Memory or Wait a while. Ann Barcomb is working on t