On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:18:52PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Package: perl-modules > Version: 5.8.8-7 > Severity: normal > > According to perl's own documentation, using $& in a program incurs a > considerable performance penalty on every regexp in the progrma. So I > was shocked to see that Text::Balanced uses this variable. > > (Text::Balanced in turn used by recent versions of markdown, which are > known to be significantly slower than older versions, which did not use > Text::Balanced. And markdown is heavily used by ikiwiki, which I hate to > see tainted by this far removed use of $& :-( ) >
Newest version of Text::Balanced in CPAN is version 2.0.0 and has removed the use of $& as far back as 1.99.0. The current CPAN version has already been integrated into bleadperl. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
