Re: [FWP] Re: PerlOS

[Chip Turner <chip@zfx.com>]

Adam Sampson <azz@josstix.demon.co.uk> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 10:07:55AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> > > @s = ("fate", "anoints", "idle", "coders"); @a = ("kill", "apropos",
> > > "pico", "ispell");print join(' ', ($s[0]..$a[0])[83813],
> > > ($s[1]..$a[1])[188889], ($s[2]..$a[2])[123871],
> > > ($s[3]..$a[3])[52995357]);
> 
> That is really, truly horrible. It runs out of memory on my 288Mb machine.
> I assume that it prints `whfg nabgure crey unpxre | rot13`...
> 
> And is there a sensible use for ".."?

To run, it would take more than 4 gig of memory on a 64 bit system (32
can't address more than 4gig, so it would have to be 64 bit).  AFAIK
it has never been executed to completion :)  Maybe in about 8 years it
will be executable on the desktop.

Will perl run on a cray?

Chip

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