On Mon Aug 20 16:49:53 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > With ccache, HEAD rebuilds for me in a little less than 3 minutes. > (2:57, on average.) > > With this patch, parrot rebuilds for me in 1 minute 41 seconds, plus or > minus a few seconds. That's almost 80 seconds faster; a 45% improvement > in build time. > > For reference, I also tried YAML::Syck, which built in 1 minute 55 > seconds. But Storable is in the perl base install, and its even faster. > > Eval sucks. Are there any drawbacks to this patch? The only thing I > can think of is that its harder to read the .dump file now that it's > binary. But it wasn't terribly well organized to begin with...
Gets my vote, though I'd wait until just after the release to commit. If someone wants to read the dump files and can't navigate Storable, we can always provide a small script in tools/dev for them.
