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=head1 TITLE
Keep C<use less>, but make it work.
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 25 Sep 2000
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Number: 303
Version: 1
Status: Developing
=head1 ABSTRACT
C<use less> is the semi-humorous Perl 5 pragma which should give the
interpreter hints as to how to make memory-speed tradeoffs. Make it
actually B<do> something in Perl 6.
=head1 DESCRIPTION
None.
=head1 IMPLEMENTATION
C<use less> should be renamed to C<use optimize> for Perl 6, and
memory-speed tradeoffs should be identified and the appropriate choice
made; this is of especial merit when compiling to standalone executable.
Of course, since we don't know what the memory-speed tradeoffs are going
to be until we start coding, it's a bit hard to give a more detailed
implementation suggestion.
C<optimize> was chosen because then more fine-grained optimisations may
be specified: see "Unrolling loops and tail recursion" for some
examples.
=head1 REFERENCES
RFC 302: Unrolling loops and tail recursion
