Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:00:24PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >: This OTOH means, that a Continuation created with invokecc shall be >: never silently reused. There is currently one protection in the code >: against that: If ever one Continuation is created explicitely, >: RetContinuation recycling is disabled - forever.
> This smells an awful lot like the sawampersand hack of early Perl, > which I now thoroughly regret. We should do all we can to avoid such > "global magical pessimization at a distance". Yes and yes. As said: "There is currently ...". If we disable continuation and stack chunk recycling just for these continuations that need it, this ugly hack can go. The whole scheme is still under development, but there is light on the horizon. > Larry leo
