Chris Santerre wrote: > What the fork happens to perl?? :) > > Seriously, how does the code handle all this memory wise?
You mean with respect to the specific organization of the rules by cascading metas? Meta rules should be rather cheap with respect to both memory and processor use. I'd venture to guess the total memory use for a meta rule is on the same order as the rule itself in text form. I base this on the assumption the memory use is going to be heavily dominated by storing the text names of the sub-rules so they can be looked up in the hit-list, and the name of the meta rule itself so it can be reported. Cascading them should be equally as cheap.
