Re: Lancaster Consensus, deal with PUREPERL_ONLY=0

* Karen Etheridge <[email protected]> [2014-06-02 01:30]:
> I do not see any gain in specifying "give me XS or give me death".

This I find easy to see, at least if we are talking of the general case:

If I have my system set up to support XS then I want it to use XS, and
if for some reason it can’t, then there is a bug somewhere that needs to
be fixed, so I do *not* want it to silently give me the PP version and
carry on, but to fall down and die screaming so I’ll find out.

However, I am unsure of the context of the discussion.

The above reasoning is applicable and important mostly when it comes to
production deployments: I never want my servers trying to limp on with
a CPU- and/or memory-hungry setup that will only reveal itself as such
in monitoring data.

But maybe the discussion is about some other scenario in which the given
reasoning is inapplicable? Since I don’t know, the above use case may be
neither here nor there.

Regards,
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