Re: on parrot strings

2002-01-23 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Russ Allbery) wrote on 22.01.02 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Kai Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A case that (in a slightly different context) recently came up on alt.usage.german (I don't remember if this particular point was made, but it belongs): berliner

Re: Tying Overloading

2001-04-30 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) wrote on 25.04.01 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you have the double-indirect, the window of vulnerability is smaller, but it's still there if you're running multithreaded. Looks zero-sized to me. One memory write, let the garbage collector collect the old

Re: Just in case you were wondering if alignment matters...

2001-04-12 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) wrote on 12.04.01 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (No, I don't know why unaligned access to 8-bit data is faster, but there you go) How *do* you unalign 8-bit data?! MfG Kai

Re: Perl_foo() vs foo() etc

2001-04-12 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) wrote on 11.04.01 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: *) All private routines have #defines to give them a _Perl_ prefix *) All private data have #defines to give them a _PL_ prefix IIRC, ISO C says you cannot have /^_[A-Z_][A-Za-z_0-9]*$/. That's reserved for the

Re: String representation

2000-12-18 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jarkko Hietaniemi) wrote on 15.12.00 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 12:13:01PM +, Simon Cozens wrote: IMHO, the first thing we need to design and code is the API and runtime library, since everything else builds on top of that, and we can design

Re: Internal Filename Representations (was Re: Summary of I/O related

2000-08-15 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jarkko Hietaniemi) wrote on 13.08.00 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 02:14:24PM -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote: Why do all those acts have to be performed to do an open? I must not be explaining myself very well... To do an open() from Perl the user does