Re: Re: 5.8 slowed relaitve to 5.6.1 (by PerlIO?)

It's active state build 805 which I believe is no threads. Isn't PerlIO responsible for unicode? Isn't there a way to say: don't expect encoding; go fast? If not, why not?

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Re: Re: Re: 5.8 slowed relaitve to 5.6.1 (by PerlIO?) by perrin (Chancellor) on Jun 10, 2003 at 17:57 UTC
It's active state build 805 which I believe is no threads. I doubt it. Check the output of perl -V. Isn't PerlIO responsible for unicode? Supporting unicode means changes in every part of perl. Regex, for exmaple. Isn't there a way to say: don't expect encoding; go fast? If not, why not? Do you have any idea how hard that is to do in a large and complex codebase like perl5? Parallel code paths for every operation? It's just not feasible.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: 5.8 slowed relaitve to 5.6.1 (by PerlIO?) by Anonymous Monk on Jun 12, 2003 at 13:19 UTC
I'm very worried/intrigued by this (as I work for a company that's developing a data profiling tool with perl and we mainly use ActivePerl). Have you tried upgrading to 806?	[reply]