At 2:59 PM -0400 6/5/02, Steve Simmons wrote:
>My seat of the pants number say our current tools (which use DBI to
>access databases) spend about as 10% of their CPU and wall clock time
>in compilation. This is measured by deliberately running the tools
>with an error (bad switch) vs running it correctly and comparing
>the times. Go to a module/version/release seach pattern and a
>ten-fold minimum increase in serach time . . . and you double the tool
>run times. That's intolerable in our environment. I recently spent
>a solid month peeling 9 seconds of per-tool overhead down to 1 second,
>getting a documented(!) savings of 16.25 hours *per week* in our
>operations group. The prospect of losing that time again with perl6
>is, er, not acceptable. Again, this argues towards indexes.
Nah. It argues for precompilation and a faster engine, both of which
you'll get. :)
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