RE: sharing big global hash and objects

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Perrin Harkins [mailto:perrin@xxxx.xxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 3:13 PM
> To: Barksdale, Ray
> Cc: mod_perl
> Subject: Re: sharing big global hash and objects
> 

> 
> Does that work?  It looks really strange to me, and may be doing some
> copying.

Yep. Works under mod_perl and it's fast, too.
But I got to thinking about what happens during blessing
and that there are 2054 of these thingies.

> 
> > My question is will this cause $hash (or the used parts) to 
> come unshared
> > in mod_perl2?
> 
> Probably.  There are some random factors involved here, like page
> boundaries.
> 

ok.

> >  Does Perl mark the anonymous hash ($hash->{$table}->{$field})
> > as being blessed into FooBar thereby causing a copy-on-write?
> 
> It does mark variables when you bless them.
> 
> Why don't you do all of this before forking?
> 
> - Perrin
> 
> 

About 10 min. after sending I had one of those "Doh!" moments and realized
that building the objects before the fork would take care of that.
Got busy and forgot to followup.

Thanks


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