Re: Pod::Simple "simplification"

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 05:43:14PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.

Devel::NYTProf is your friend.

(Specifically, one test of it is to profile the installman script in core,
because that does a lot of Pod work in one process)

No answers jump out of the page on how to speed it up, though. Although
spending more than a couple of minutes looking at it might find some.

Nicholas Clark