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author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-04-24 06:11:56 +0000 |
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committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-04-24 06:11:56 +0000 |
commit | 4375e838ae24b385ae79fa7b6918e613bedaaee6 (patch) | |
tree | 9418d63a58345f7e8f9e1ff644fa85c022b18650 /README.os2 | |
parent | 94a371ee7128c99a38226de46cbec028ae3a990e (diff) | |
download | perl-4375e838ae24b385ae79fa7b6918e613bedaaee6.tar.gz |
various pod nits (from Larry Virden and others)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5917
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/README.os2 b/README.os2 index a69ea0d4ce..1e7464bb67 100644 --- a/README.os2 +++ b/README.os2 @@ -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 |