Re: Pod::Simple "simplification"
[email protected] (Russ Allbery)
| Newsgroups | perl.pod-people |
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| Organization | The Eyrie |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Ricardo Signes <[email protected]> writes: > Is there any strong feeling that Pod::Simple needs to have so many > things done either apparently or clearly in the interest of speed? I > found a number of methods that I could barely track down because they're > generated strangely, explicitly in the name of speed. There's a good > bit of code to allow debugging output to be optimized away, which leads > to stupid method of using "DEBUG" which leads to stupid bugs. And so > on. Ironically, Pod::Simple is still rather slow, and I didn't notice that much of a performance improvement over the previous Pod::Parser when I switched the podlators modules to it. > I would like to refactor the code as I work so that methods are easier > to find, use, and replace as needed. Maybe I can fill in some of the > "to do" documentation, once I understand what the hell is going on. I think that would be awesome. I end up having to read source code whenever I have to interact with it since the documentation for people writing POD translators leaves a lot to be desired. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>