Re: [ID 20020602.007] strange timing dependent thread events

2002-06-03 Thread Arthur Bergman
On måndag, juni 3, 2002, at 10:16 , Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: At 09:57 AM 6/3/02 +0200, Arthur Bergman wrote: Well, the thread should have finished after the detach. I guess I'm still thinking too linear in this respect and not parallel enough... ;-) No, actually the thread is running

Re: hints/linux.sh stdio

2002-06-03 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 02:00:25PM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote: In my brief testing, the version without snooping actually ran very slightly marginally faster anyway :-), so defensively defaulting to it didn't bother me much. IIRC when the buffer snooping probes were updated to look for *BSD

Re: List::Util math promotes IVs to NVs

2002-06-03 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 08:40:00AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote: On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 02:37:11PM -0400, Sam Tregar wrote: And what's the best way for an XS module to preserve IVs? To go out if its way to check IOK etc and use differnet code paths which is exactly what pp_add, pp_eq and all

some irrelevant subject

2002-06-03 Thread rbno_
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Re: [ID 20020603.006] Not OK: perl v5.8.0 on PA-RISC1.1 11.00

2002-06-03 Thread John Peacock
Michael G Schwern wrote: 10.2 is surely a small enough float that it shouldn't fall afoul of floating point error? Repeat after me: SIZE DOESN'T MATTER... ;~) Certain decimals do not translate cleanly into binary notation; when they are entered as literals, they will appear fine, but when

request for an addition/improvement to File::Find (part of perl core)

2002-06-03 Thread DH
Hello. First i would like to humbly request that $File::Find::VERSION be added, but more importantly, beg that a File::Find::breakout subroutine which would allow someone to do things like my $count = 0; find( sub { $count++; File::Find::breakout() if $count ==