https://blog.nelhage.com/2010/05/hack-value/

Recently, I’ve been working on some BarnOwl branches that move more of the core functionality of BarnOwl into perl code, instead of C (BarnOwl is written in an unholy mix of C and perl code that call each other back and forth obsessively). Moving code into perl has many advantages, but one problem is speed – perl code is obvious a lot slower than C, and BarnOwl has a lot of hot spots related to its tendency to keep tens or hundreds of thousands of messages in memory and loop over all of them in response to various commands.

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