RE: an aside on compiling speed (was Re: PARROT QUESTIONS: Keyed access)

2002-07-22 Thread Brent Dax
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 thing

Re: an aside on compiling speed (was Re: PARROT QUESTIONS: Keyed access)

2002-07-22 Thread Melvin Smith
At 09:58 PM 7/22/2002 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: >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 f