Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > Nicholas Clark wrote: > > Leo has just done a talk on parrot, where he showed a graph showing the > > relative speeds of runloops. The switch runloop is about 3-4 times faster > > What's a switch runloop ? What would it switch on ? PL_op->op_type ? > Would it be really faster than a function pointer call ?
This was a rhetorical question. How would we know without benchmarks :) > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but the whole runloop is pluggable, and can be > > replaced by any CPAN module. > > Right. The main problem being, how to replace the top level runloop.
