<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 November 2010 22:55, Sam Watkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sam@nipl.net">sam@nipl.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">> Ahh, good point - the signals may be happening in some other scope.<br>
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</div>$| depend on scope, it's a global. 'local' allows to temporarily change a<br>
global variable, until the 'local' block exits. I suppose your 'local' block<br>
hasn't exited yet when the signal handler is called, so it shouldn't make any<br>
difference if you use local or not.<br>
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It's going to be hard^Wimpossible to get very high scores in perl unless you<br>
use a perl native code compiler or something. You just don't have the same<br>
computation capabilities. Well-written C can be hundreds of times faster, and<br>
there's barely anything that can be done to speed up the perl code. But good<br>
luck anyway, maybe with a brilliant algorithm can get in the top 100!<br></blockquote><div> </div>complete and utter hogwash.<div><br></div><div>The algorithm is the important part, not the programming language.</div><div>
<br></div></div><div>Mathew Robertson</div></div><div><br></div>