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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-04-24 06:11:56 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-04-24 06:11:56 +0000
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parent94a371ee7128c99a38226de46cbec028ae3a990e (diff)
downloadperl-4375e838ae24b385ae79fa7b6918e613bedaaee6.tar.gz
various pod nits (from Larry Virden and others)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5917
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@@ -1481,7 +1481,7 @@ this works as well under DOS if you use DOS-enabled port of pdksh
B<Disadvantages:> currently F<sh.exe> of pdksh calls external programs
via fork()/exec(), and there is I<no> functioning exec() on
-OS/2. exec() is emulated by EMX by asyncroneous call while the caller
+OS/2. exec() is emulated by EMX by asynchronous call while the caller
waits for child completion (to pretend that the C<pid> did not change). This
means that 1 I<extra> copy of F<sh.exe> is made active via fork()/exec(),
which may lead to some resources taken from the system (even if we do
@@ -1525,8 +1525,8 @@ as when processing B<-S> command-line switch.
Perl uses its own malloc() under OS/2 - interpreters are usually malloc-bound
for speed, but perl is not, since its malloc is lightning-fast.
-Perl-memory-usage-tuned benchmarks show that Perl's malloc is 5 times quickier
-than EMX one. I do not have convincing data about memory footpring, but
+Perl-memory-usage-tuned benchmarks show that Perl's malloc is 5 times quicker
+than EMX one. I do not have convincing data about memory footprint, but
a (pretty random) benchmark showed that Perl one is 5% better.
Combination of perl's malloc() and rigid DLL name resolution creates