Re: Y2K readiness

[Tom Christiansen]

>Pity we've seen such a slowdown in recent perls. I'm hoping efficiency 
>hacks are high on the list for 5.7/5.8

I think the bloat is due to Unicode.  I think the speeddowns are
because of Larry not really being so into the release process.  He
hates slow, and if he noticed, he'd tweak or thwap it into something
faster.

--tom