On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Alex Vandiver <[email protected]> wrote: > Since we're talking about literals, this hasn't been true since 2007, > with the release of perl 5.10. Perl now uses a Aho-Corasick trie > algorithm internally for literal alternations, which allows for > matching without backtracking:
Aha, a major benefit for legacy shops to move up. Besides announcement that 5.8.9 is EOL (and 5.10.1 implicitly is too). I'll have to remember that if I get resistance as I roll out 5.12.3 to replace 5.8.[2-8] -- Bill @n1vux [email protected] _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
