use mro;

["Philippe M. Chiasson" <go...@ectoplasm.org>]

One neat thing about Perl 5.10 is the mro package (Method Resolution Order).

But the neat feature that caught my eye is pkg_gen()

http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.10.0/lib/mro.pm#mro::get_pkg_gen($classname)

In mod_perl, we use PL_sub_generation to determine if our method cache (handlers)
is still valid. That is unfortunately a single integer that's basically incremented
every time a subroutine is redefined anywhere.

So this means that when, say, Apache::Reload kicks in, it will invalidate
the handler cache we have for every single module, not just the one we just
reloaded.

In 5.10, mro::get_pkg_gen($classname) gives you the same, except at a
package granularity. Pretty cool optimization.

When building against 5.10, we could make use of this I'd think.

Just a thought.

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