At 12:47 PM 8/10/02 +0200, Arthur Bergman wrote: >>Ah.. ok... I didn't know that. >>But at least the value will only be copied to the thread that actually >>requests it, so that is a saving I would think? >That is how it works right now, except that it is cloned aswell, I have a >patch that will defer the cloning of shared values.
Hmmm... thinking some more about this. Why _is_ the FETCHed value of a tied variable saved locally? How would any internal (XS) module know whether it would be ok to use the saved value or to do a FETCH again? Would it not make even more sense to change this behaviour of tied variables? Liz
