Well since you bring it up... :-)

tilly's patch indeed. One. Very definitely only. But I do have a contribution to the core that apparently will get in over serious (and legitimate) aesthetic complaints by Sarathy: 

--- pp_ctl.c.bak        Tue Mar 21 00:42:26 2000
+++ pp_ctl.c    Tue Apr 25 04:03:36 2000
@@ -736,6 +736,8 @@
        if (diff > PL_markstack_ptr[-1] - PL_markstack_ptr[-2]) {
            shift = diff - (PL_markstack_ptr[-1] - PL_markstack_ptr[-2
+]);
            count = (SP - PL_stack_base) - PL_markstack_ptr[-1] + 2;
+           if (shift < count)
+               shift = count; /* Avoid shifting too often */

            EXTEND(SP,shift);
            src = SP;

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Not much, eh? But this has the effect of making a 1-2 map of n things go from being O(n^2) to O(n). Specifically without the patch it is very slow to do this: 
%hash = map {$_, 1} 1..100000;

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and after the patch this is fast. :-)

Any 1-1 map (eg Schwartzian sort) is fast both before and after. It only matters when you get back more elements than you put in.

In reply to RE (tilly) 2: List non-matching files by tilly
in thread List non-matching files by fundflow

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