[sf-perl] a reason to goto

[Quinn Weaver]

On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 06:55:15PM -0800, Neil Heller wrote:
> In addition to a performance hit (which can be significant, depending on the
> memory requirements of the recursive function) you might also run into a
> trashing scenario.  Buying new hard disks can get expensive and reinstalling
> all your software can suck.

What do you mean by "trashing scenario"?  Do you mean "thrashing", as
in swapping memory to disk, which could overstress the hard drive
(I guess)?

http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/T/thrash.html

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