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[Julian Field]

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Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions wrote:

>Alex Neuman van der Hans <> said on 23 November 2005 16:44:
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>>What does "Speed improvement changing &POSIX::WNOHANG to WNOHANG in
>>sub Explode" for non-programmers? 
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>I'd be happy with a "what does that mean for thus of us who don't speak
>fluent Perl?"?
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Very little, apparently :-)

Someone has made a significant speed improvement on 1 architecture by 
replacing the parameter to the waitpid() called &POSIX::WNOHANG with 
WNOHANG. This is all in the subroutine called Explode which opens up 
email attachments and turns them into normal files that can be scanned 
for viruses and so on.

So I have made the same change (in 2 places in the same subroutine) in 
the main code and released it as a new minor version to see if others 
see a similar speed improvement.

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