On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 07:21:03PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Ah, that sounds good. By the way, is this special magic the reason of the
> restriction that there can be only one var watcher for a certain variable (while it
> is no problem to have a number of idle watchers and so on)?
It simplifies the code somewhat. At the time I wrote it, I was
skeptical of the utility of var watchers. This restriction can be
relaxed in a future release if there is enough demand.
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