Re: Array/Hash Growth

2002-01-08 Thread Ken Williams
On Sunday, January 6, 2002, at 10:21 AM, James Edward Gray II wrote: Is it a big gain to pre-extend the data structures? With how many entries? It's not usually that much of a gain, but you should benchmark it to make sure. The allocation scheme perl uses (for both arrays and hashes) is

Re: HFS+ and directory layout

2002-01-08 Thread Ken Williams
On Tuesday, January 8, 2002, at 04:04 AM, Dan Kogai wrote: on 02.1.8 6:12 PM, Ken Williams at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * perl itself requires UFS to compile because of this No it doesn't - see the archives of this list for directions for compiling on HFS+. It's pretty easy. When I say

Re: MacOSX::File uploaded to CPAN

2002-01-08 Thread Chris Nandor
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Kogai) wrote: My name is Dan Kogai and this is my first time to drop a message here -- maybe with a good reason. I just uploaded a module called MacOSX::File, which allows you to write programs like the ones on /Developer/Tools.

Re: MacOSX::File uploaded to CPAN

2002-01-08 Thread Ken Williams
On Tuesday, January 8, 2002, at 04:46 PM, Chris Nandor wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Kogai) wrote: I just uploaded a module called MacOSX::File, which allows you to write programs like the ones on /Developer/Tools. You can now copy() with resource fork

Re: MacOSX::File uploaded to CPAN

2002-01-08 Thread Wilfredo Sánchez
Have you considered adding this functionality into existing File I/O code (possibly with some new options) instead of adding whole new API? -Fred On Monday, January 7, 2002, at 10:17 AM, Dan Kogai wrote: My name is Dan Kogai and this is my first time to drop a message here --

Namespace [Was: Re: MacOSX::File]

2002-01-08 Thread Dan Kogai
Hi Chris. Long time no see. on 02.1.9 7:46 AM, Chris Nandor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dan. Two comments: Okay let me answer one by one. 1. Did you ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] about the namespace? I am not sure MacOSX is a good top-level namespace. Maybe I should have and I did think

File::Copy vs. MacOSX::File::Copy [Was: Re: MacOSX::File uploadedto CPAN]

2002-01-08 Thread Dan Kogai
Now let me answer the 2nd question of Chris 2. Did you look at the modules in MacPerl that do the same thing, with an eye toward compatability of interfaces? Yes I did and I did check File::Copy myself as well. As a matter of fact File::Copy appears to be MacPerl-compliant already. In a