On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:15:39PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I didn't realize until I read through parts of this exactly how much time a
> refcounting GC scheme took. Between that and perl 5's penchant for
> flattening arrays and hashes (which creates a lot of garbage itself for
> biggish things), I wonder how much perl 5's performance could be boosted
> with some relatively minor changes to GC & list handling.
Well, for a rough estimate try:
sv.h:
#undef SvREFCNT_inc
#define SvREFCNT_inc(sv)
#undef SvREFCNT_dec
#define SvREFCNT_dec(sv)
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