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• Commented on Hash of Arrays Deathmatch : Native Perl vs. DBM::Deep vs. Redis
  calling rand() a lot is slow, so you might want to minimize its impact by using this technique: https://stackoverflow.com/a/63178400 you can then also "rotate" each string for a further reduction of a factor of length($string)....
• Commented on An objective criteria for deprecating community platforms
  You're the same guy advocating the Perl Facebook group, right? The group is private, inside a walled garden, not indexed by search engines: https://twitter.com/PerlDean/status/1594018066911764482...
• Commented on Perl performance evolution over the last decade
  Tracking times in smaller things would also help, since they probably contribute to the changes in the larger, real-world examples. I noticed that the performance of the lc() function changes drastically among perl versions. Just between 5.34 and 5.36 the...
• Commented on Integrated Inconsistencies.
  (The first paragraph of my previous reply was supposed to blockquoted, but guess my html tags weren't applied)...
• Commented on Integrated Inconsistencies.
  So I then took over Algorithm::Line::Bresenham, and found the original code appeared to take the y-coordinate before the x-coordinate...blasphemy And you changed it, breaking everybody's code who was using it, without even a mention in the docs nor changelog (which...
• Commented on Perl performance on Apple M1
  sounds like the "bad state" is preferring the efficiency cores instead of the performance cores....
• Commented on Alternatives to rand()
  Math::Random::MTwist is now only available from Backpan. It disappeared without any notice....
• Commented on Perl7 is a fork of values
  preaction, if you want uncertainty and to break the language and the community, fork it/off....
• Commented on I started to write "Perl Philosophy" lately
  that's an idiom meaning "it's all a foreign language to me". you wrote a post in english pointing english-speaking users to a site that had no english....
• Commented on JSON::Transform - transform JSON-able data structures without code
  looks like an alternative to the wonderful jq tool but with a more inscrutable DSL...
• Commented on I start creating static perl
  When I saw the title saying "static perl", my first thought was a statically-linked build of perl....
• Commented on Article: Installation of Image::Magick under Debian
  Alien::ImageMagick still requires it's own copy of ImageMagick to be compiled, and worse yet, it might require a separate build of perl. It's pod also only mentions that version of Image::Magick on cpan isn't "cpanm compatible". If somebody from the...
• Commented on Article: Installation of Image::Magick under Debian
  It would be nice if you would mention why it's even necessary to do all this instead of just aptitude install ImageMagic and then cpanm Image::Magick. The cpan test page for Image::Magick (PerlMagick) is full of install failures and unknowns...

Comment Threads

• Saif commented on Integrated Inconsistencies.

  I did change the code, so it looks better (i.e. x come before the y) , output is not changed, and it will work either way. The output points' x-y order will match the the points input, so old code do not need to be altered. Secondly I have checked whether any one else uses it: according to the original author whom I have been in contact with, it is esoteric enough that nobody else uses it. But I agree I should have mentioned it in the pod. will do so in the next iteration.

• Dean commented on An objective criteria for deprecating community platforms

  I discussed these key weaknesses in legacy platforms previously: https://blogs.perl.org/users/dean/2021/04/reimagining-perl5-porters-email-list-for-2021-and-beyond.html

  People are more than welcome to maintain systems which allow search engines to index the content. Reddit does that and so does Stackoverflow. No platforms where listed above.

  It's unfortunate that being indexed by a search engine is a deal breaker for some people, but it's not for over 5000 other…

• Jakub Narebski commented on An objective criteria for deprecating community platforms

  There is modern approach to the mailing list, namely the public-inbox software (the same that powers lore.kernel.org). With it you have both web interface and NNTP interface to the mailing list, and you can post using the other.

  That avoids filling the inbox with unrelated discussion, adds access to the history, adds searchability and being indexed.

  Still not for everybody, but in my opinion overall a better experience.

• Mike B commented on An objective criteria for deprecating community platforms

  Fun fact: public-inbox is written in Perl!

• Dean commented on An objective criteria for deprecating community platforms

  Thanks for the link Dragonflydigest https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2022/12/24/lazy-in-other-bsds-reading-for-end-of-2022/