Re: [Bug-gne]various random thoughts

[Rob Scott]

> If you don't awnt to pay the price of a perl comp every time a script runs
> (and it's a small price, believe me), then run the thing from inittab and
> make it sleep between work sessions. Simple and clean. Unless you've got a
> lot of proggie gurus on tap, you'll need the fast development cycle of Perl
> to stay ahead of the requirements list. Things can always be redeveloped
> into a faster language once they're stable.

yes but running something in the background would require some sort
of IPC which im not sure tom's done yet.

he could use loopback sockets :) hehe

but i imagine something like FIFO would be ideal.