From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 13:51:19 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Document the odd slowdown of ext/Encode/t/Unicode.t under X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f134cc4e302d988e4e5a138108f7a9a9293dd8da;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Document the odd slowdown of ext/Encode/t/Unicode.t under memory debuggers. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16630 --- diff --git a/pod/perlhack.pod b/pod/perlhack.pod index 75d9241..0826802 100644 --- a/pod/perlhack.pod +++ b/pod/perlhack.pod @@ -2007,7 +2007,15 @@ standard Perl testset you would create and run Purify as: which would instrument Perl in memory, run Perl on test.pl, then finally report any memory problems. -=head2 Compaq's/Digital's Third Degree +B: as of Perl 5.8.0, the ext/Encode/t/Unicode.t takes +extraordinarily long (hours?) to complete under Purify. It has been +theorized that it would eventually finish, but nobody has so far been +patient enough :-) (This same extreme slowdown has been seen also with +the Third Degree tool, so the said test must be doing something that +is quite unfriendly for memory debuggers.) It is suggested that you +simply kill away that testing process. + +=head2 Compaq's/Digital's/HP's Third Degree Third Degree is a tool for memory leak detection and memory access checks. It is one of the many tools in the ATOM toolkit. The toolkit is only