[JaxPM] autoflush

[Greg Sabino Mullane]

On the jacksonville-pm-list; Jax.PM'er "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg at turnstep.com> wrote -


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> Wait ...  Isn't $|++ set to *prevent* buffering when using 
> CGI file handles?

$| improves the buffering by switching from the default buffering 
(usually ~ 2K depending on the OS) to "command" buffering, 
which I assume means that fflush() is called every time 
a command (e.g. print) is called by perl. While still not 
totally unbuffered, this is way better than the default. :)

I wouldn't be surprised if Perl6 managed to put a command 
in (or even a default) so that all filehandles are automatically 
"unbuffered." I can't recall if it does, but I do remember 
that you can open a file in P6 with "autochomp" mode - yay!

Greg Sabino Mullane
greg at turnstep.com
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