At 02:13 PM 3/10/00 -0500, Ed James, TCS Inc, 410-295-1919, 
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>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:07:02 
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>Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm gonna add in a question to CONFIGURE.COM for this and get it back.
> > Should it default to on (the way we've always done it) or to off, which
> > gets you a faster perl?
>
>I say leave it out to get faster Perl, as long as that is the same default
>on other OS versions of Perl. Is there any consistency among OSs?

Now *there* is a loaded question. :)

Default on unix is off, for speed reasons. We've always had it on (you 
couldn't actually build perl without debugging on VMS--it failed) which is 
why I'm not sure which default we should use.

                                        Dan

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