Re: Perl Tops "Wide Finder" Results

[erroneousBollock]

For now ;)

Unfortunately, we should prepare ourselves for the next JoCaml submission to knock at least another 25% off the wf(32) elapsed time :(.

From what I've read elsewhere, O'Rourke's wf.pl could be made faster simply by switching from Sys::MMap to MMap. (
Does the :mmap PerlIO layer introduce significant overhead, as compared to Sys::MMap::mmap()? It'd be nice if you could basically get speedups for free on systems that support mmap.

What I like about the currently leading Perl solution (wf.pl) is that it's still a straightforward implementation of an obvious approach to the problem... not too much optimisation necessary to make it run fast.

-David

[educated_foo]

AFAICT Sys::MMap and MMap are the same module -- Scott Walters just took it over and updated it for recent perls.

[erroneousBollock]

Ah, you're right. I went looking for where I'd read it...

The difference is between doing new MMap (slow) and mmap (fast), due to the tie() interface. Don't know if that's still true.

-David