Jonathan Field wrote: > > I am curious why the feature is to be disabled in 2.x? Not questioning > the judgement, but wondering if it was determined to not be a worthwhile > performance gain? Or is it just too complex internally despite the gain?
My intuition tells me that the performance gain is not mesureable anyway. > Also, without any understanding of the internals, it seems to me there may > be a second problem: on subsequent requests the ref is still hanging > around (as shown in the original sample output I sent), even though both > the original scalar and the ref are lexically scoped. One would think > they had been destroyed by then? Any clue as to what causes that? Is > this small leak meaningful enough to worry about? I'm not sure what you mean here. Note that *variables* are lexically scoped, but not values. -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html
