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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:21:11 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Bytecode metadata
To: Dave Mitchell <da...@fdgroup.com>,  Juergen Boemmels <boemm...@physik.uni-kl.de>
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--- Dave Mitchell <da...@fdgroup.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:21:45PM +0100, Juergen Boemmels wrote:
> > My current idea for the in memory format of the bytecode is this:
> 
> I would strongly urge any file-based byte-code format to arranged
> in such a way that it (or most of it) can simply be mmap-ed in (RO),
> analogously to executables.
> 
> This means that a Perl server that relies on a lot of modules, and
> which
> forks for each connection (imagine a Perl-based web server), doesn't
> consume acres of swap space just to have an in-memory image per Perl
> process, of all the modules.

sounds good.

could that be seen as similar to shared memory communication with the
compile,
via mem-mapped file interfaces?

mike

> This is a real problem that's hitting me hard with Perl 5 in my day
> job.
> 
> Dave.
> 
> -- 
> Any [programming] language that doesn't occasionally surprise the
> novice will pay for it by continually surprising the expert.
>  - Larry Wall


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James Michael DuPont
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