perl bless/overload performance problem on RHEL

[Matt S Trout]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 10:16:42AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> What RedHat did, and why - your guess is as good as mine. But anyone
> commenting about the source, cause, or intent of code changes to the
> Perl core itself that is in disagreement with what I typed in
> http://use.perl.org/~nicholas/journal/37274 is wrong.

They originally merged your patch to negate a Class::DBI crash, since
::HasBeenDeleted doesn't have overloading but Class::DBI itself stringifies
out of the box.

The irony of the fact that this then went on to fuck over performance in
DBIx::Class on those perls was not lost on me.

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