[Petal] [Patch]Problem with last patch

[Jean-Michel Hiver]

> The last patch for the tal-style repeat counter had a problem with nested 
> loops. This explains a large part of the surprising 5x speedup - if it's too 
> good to be true, it's usually not true.
> 
> This new patch fixes that. However for some reason neither patch plays well 
> with Petal's $hash->get() method which does some sort of caching - this 
> explains another big part of the speed up.
> 
> It is however safe to use if you're using Petal::CodePerl as this does no 
> caching of Petales expressions.
> 
> The speedup is 50% for my dictionary template, which does a lot of looping. 
> It's still not too bad I suppose and it means that for my dictionary program 
> Petal is now about 30% faster than Template::Toolkit

If this option is relevant only when using Petal::CodePerl, should this
really be patched into Petal? It's a shame because I like the idea of
having this repeat object.

I'll take a look into it :)

Cheers,
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