On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 08:19:20AM +0100, wolf blaum wrote: > If you are asking how to teel between: > $var=⊂ > and > ⊂ Pretty much, from the point of view of sub.
> However, there is a way to tell who asked for the result: > read perldoc -f caller Not really what I want. > but why dont you pass a parameter to the sub that tells it? Because there are about a dozen subs and I didn't want to change the API on all of them, along with all the places they are being called from. However, I resolved it, not quite so elegantly, but introducing a 'keepResults' method to the class that has the subs, which allows it to be toggled. In my optimisation attempts I ended up stumbling into another issue however, somewhat unrelated. I set it up, so that if the results aren't needed, they aren't even read from the network socket. This means that if the remote program is taking its time to generate them, the Perl program doesn't have to wait for data it'll be throwing away. I added a counter to see how much data we are ignoring, so that when we finally do need something, we know how much to discard. However, I found that if the the queue of data got above one, one of two things happens: either the Java program at the other end discards the extra XML elements sent to it while processing ones that take a while, or replies get lost. Either way, the Perl end sits there waiting for data that never arrives. If I can be bothered, I might put debugging code into the Java to see whats happening, at that end. However, if anyone has a clue as to what's going please let me know (the more data I can safely ignore, the faster my program can run :) -- Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> JabberID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hostes alienigeni me abduxerunt. Qui annus est? PGP Key 0x776DB663 Fingerprint=DD10 5C62 1E29 A385 9866 0853 CD38 E07A 776D B663
pgp00000.pgp
Description: PGP signature
