On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:21:45PM +0100, Juergen Boemmels wrote: > My current idea for the in memory format of the bytecode is this:
I would strongly urge any file-based byte-code format to arranged in such a way that it (or most of it) can simply be mmap-ed in (RO), analogously to executables. This means that a Perl server that relies on a lot of modules, and which forks for each connection (imagine a Perl-based web server), doesn't consume acres of swap space just to have an in-memory image per Perl process, of all the modules. This is a real problem that's hitting me hard with Perl 5 in my day job. Dave. -- Any [programming] language that doesn't occasionally surprise the novice will pay for it by continually surprising the expert. - Larry Wall
