On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 06:36:05PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> what about the costs of var watchers? I'm thinking about a slight
> redesign of my application which would include a lot of them (made and
> destroyed dynamically) running simultaneously. I'm asking because usual
> debuggers are often slowed down EXTREMELY if variable watching
> breakpoints are set. Is this true for Event var watchers as well, or are
> they implemented quite differently?
They are implemented with perl's MAGIC. My experience is that MAGIC has
a very small performance impact. Have you used TIEXXX? Var watchers
are faster than TIE.
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