Greetings! I have finally gotten around to working on autoload again to ensure that there are no issues. But I have a question about the _AUTOLOADS array, which is used to track what has been autoloaded and is the source of information for the -p command.
The code executes a linear scan of the array _AUTOLOADS each time it has to find and element for removal or to make sure it is not about to add a duplicate entry. This is hardly very efficient. Would it be OK to convert that to an associative array (hash to us Perlers) indexed on function name? I ask before submitting the patch because I am worried about backward compatibility; I do not know when hashes were added to bash nor do I know what the policy is about how far back compatibility has to be maintained. Thank you! -- Matthew O. Persico
