[KLUG Members] Standard Regular Expressions (REs)

Adam Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:13:32 -0500 (EST)


>>Alot of perl module seem to do a terrible amount of memcpyss,
>>mallocs, etc... like they are making copy upon copy's of
>>strings or something. I haven't look at the perl code, just
>>aimed debugging tools at running programs a few times.
>Perl 5.6 improved performance in that regard a fair amount... 
>I wonder if you were profiling >= 5.6, or <= 5.005 ...

I'm almost certain it was 5.005