Re: [Boston.pm] perl program to count distinct values - can it be made faster

2014-03-08 Thread Charles Reitzel
I think Gyepi SAM is getting close to the issue: regex. it is clearly NOT i/o bound if scanning once per field is about as fast. Regexes are slow. Very slow. Replace w/ simple parsing logic based on string position and you'll get the speed up. Note, I like regex just fine, but I have

Re: [Boston.pm] ?instances of classA contained in classB, and instances of classB contained in classC?

2013-12-03 Thread Charles Reitzel
It sounds like you're close to the coast. Once you spend a little quality time with the new chip architecture, it won't seem so much like overkill. :-) One thought, I wouldn't look the register types as containers. I'd simply keep them as specializations. This change would simplify the

Re: [Boston.pm] Komodo vs. emacs

2003-07-03 Thread Charles Reitzel
At 08:18 PM 7/2/2003 +, Mikey Smelto wrote: My problem with Komodo was that it was slow. I have a P4 1.5Ghz with 768 MB of ram, and it took a long time to call it up. Yes I was running the windows version. But darren and the vi army have speed on their side. so i joined that army.

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl 6 has become too complex

2003-03-18 Thread Charles Reitzel
At 01:03 AM 3/18/2003 -0600, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: Joe Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: * *Do you trust Larry and Damain? I wish they'd just stop circulating the Apocs so widely as every time Larry emits one there is a rash of people who think the world has needed to know or cares that

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl 6 has become too complex

2003-03-18 Thread Charles Reitzel
At 01:29 PM 3/18/2003 -0600, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: And if it's any comfort to you I hear they have a special cousel in an grumpy 80 year-old man :) I feel better already, Thanks. Is it Mel Brooks or Carl Reiner? I think I'll have a nectarine ... g Charlie

Re: [Boston.pm] environment variables that stick

2003-01-16 Thread Charles Reitzel
At 09:51 AM 1/16/2003 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hanes, Philipp wrote: Probably not. Hi Philipp, how're things? That's a bummer. TMTOWTDI becomes NCD - No Can Do If it is any consolation, it isn't Perl's fault. It is inherent in the nature of parent/child processes. The child

Re: [Boston.pm] A XS question

2003-01-10 Thread Charles Reitzel
I have found using SWIG (www.swig.org) is very convenient and it generate high quality wrapper code. Better, with the C++ option, it will a set of Perl modules with a parallel inheritance hierarchy. Even if you do not end up using the generated wrapper, it provides useful examples of XS code

[Boston.pm] Perl 5.8 Extensions

2002-11-23 Thread Charles Reitzel
Hi All, I have a nifty little SWIG Perl extension that builds, tests, and installs fine w/ Perl 5.6 on Win32 and Linux. http://users.rcn.com/creitzel/tidy.html#tidyperl I have a user trying to install it w/ Perl 5.8 and is getting runtime problems. I.e. make test passes all tests OK, and the

Re: [Boston.pm] Content management system

2002-09-20 Thread Charles Reitzel
Hi Ranga, Am curious, what is your application? What are the requirements? I have seen huge budgets and staff sizes get little done w/ Vignette. Plus hear horror stories about Vignette and Interwoven on a regular basis on cms-list. Wrote an in-house CMS myself. Wanted to buy one, but CMS