On onsdag, juli 24, 2002, at 11:52 , Dave Mitchell wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 11:42:54PM +0200, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: >>> Each shared var has an emptyish SV per thread which has attached magic >>> that allows it to access the contents of the real var. >> >> That explains the benchmark that I saw so far. But does this also >> explain >> the strange numbers for my $var : unique? That seems to be the worst, >> memory wise... > > Perosnally I don't know much about :unique. I had always thought it was > some sort of hangover from pre threads::shared days. Arthur? > Not at all, otoh I don't know much about it either :-). It comes from Doug and it applies to readonly situations. Arthur
