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On 6/11/2011 6:07 AM, Robert Watson wrote:
> To me, this seems like the wrong direction.  Over the last decade, we've
> been trying to move away from conditional compilation of features to
> having them be loadable as modules.

FWIW, I agree. I'm wondering though, is there still a performance 
penalty for modules? My understanding in the past was that there is, 
although for most use cases it's in the statistical noise. Is that still 
true?


Doug

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