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authorNicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>2014-03-01 17:40:05 +0100
committerNicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>2014-03-01 17:40:05 +0100
commit25983af42cdcf2dc1fea6717dac7aac441b6301d (patch)
tree0a6de9811bcfe84d9a22b8a1cdf53f2fdba55834 /intrpvar.h
parentc79d007613fa174f6f5e1588ca5374f505fc44af (diff)
downloadperl-25983af42cdcf2dc1fea6717dac7aac441b6301d.tar.gz
pp_tms should use a local struct tms, instead of PL_timesbuf.
PL_timesbuf is effectively a vestige of Perl 1, and doesn't actually need to be an interpreter variable. It will be removed early in v5.21.x, but it's a good idea to refactor the code not to use it before then. A local struct tms will be on the C stack, which will be in the CPU's L1 cache, whereas the relevant part of the interpreter struct may well not be in the CPU cache at all. Therefore this change might reduce cache pressure fractionally. A local variable access should also be simpler machine code on most CPU architectures.
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diff --git a/intrpvar.h b/intrpvar.h
index 2c1b73ee49..5d27ad5fb4 100644
--- a/intrpvar.h
+++ b/intrpvar.h
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ PERLVAR(I, statgv, GV *)
PERLVARI(I, statname, SV *, NULL)
#ifdef HAS_TIMES
+/* Will be removed soon after v5.21.0. See RT #121351 */
PERLVAR(I, timesbuf, struct tms)
#endif