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Re: [ID 19991229.003] perl 5.005_03 core dumps -- singal

From: Tom Horsley <Tom.Horsley@mail.ccur.com>
Reply-To: Tom.Horsley@mail.ccur.com
To: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
Cc: Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>, nick@ing-simmons.net, nads@bleh.org, perl5-porters@perl.org, ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:36:55 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <14459.16391.312051.312651@cleo.ccur.com>

>For example, sort() on a large data set can take a swell spell

Sort is a good example. I remember an IBM rep doing a demo of a little APL
"portable" machine back in the early 70s which I immediately hung by typing
in the magic apl gibberish for: "sort" "reverse" "0..50000"

It went away, and could not be interrupted. He finally had to power cycle it
rather than wait for the sort to finish (it was, obviously, not a speed
demon - I'm not entirely sure, but it may have been a 4004 chip running
a 360 emulator running 360 apl :-).

References to:: Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>
Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>

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