performance patch

Hi,

I tried to stay out of this obscure discussion but I recently had the
luck to talk to Larry Wall and he had some nice relevant comments that
I would like to share with all of you ...

Oliver Smith writes:
> 
> And the thing to remember is that Perl is a language of optimisations;
> it's a scripting language not a system programming language. When you
> can use a perl optimisation without entering an obfuscation contest,
> it is always worth using them.

But Larry assurred me that writing a registry database in perl is a
good thing to do, however, we should not have made this fact public
for the people that are not 'enlightened' yet ...

(Editorial comment: I don't know if the following is blasphemy but: I
                    am not sure if I can fully agree since many people
                    that know me, know that I actually already think
                    for many years that a more solid foundation for
                    such a piece of important software is a good
                    thing (TM))

> That said, I personally find it's just easier not to argue with the
> nano-second saving perlmeisers :-); perlers are a very religious bunch,
> with a tendency to opt out of the laziness principle when it comes
> to discussing SEC (someone elses code).

To add some more religion to the discussion:

Do not forget Larry's philosophy which applies her quite well:

There's More Than One Way To Do It!

David K.
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