At 03:03 PM 11/12/2001 -0500, Michael L Maraist wrote:
> From the above, the only uses I can see for declaring "my $foo as int" is to
>set flags (or utilize different vtables) to enforce integerness, and to say
>to the optimizer that it's ok to use a primitive integer if the block
>contained a divide.
Yes. Declaring simple-typed scalars won't buy much. The big win in terms of
size will be for:
my int @foo;
my float %bar;
which is where we generally chew up all our memory anyway.
Dan
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