Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> MP> pod2usage is the call I THINK you are refering to. Who cares if it is
> MP> slow? I'll bet that if you are writting to the screen or a file, THAT's
> MP> the slow part, not traipsing through the file parsing for POD. It might
> MP> make an interesting Benchmark test.
>
> i think reading the file may have issues like finding it. or doc strings
> for each sub vs. parsing that out of the whole pod. i just bothers me to
> have to read that file for stuff that was in the source. so some better
> syntax to make that accessible to the code seems like a win.
A neglectible one.
Remember, 99.99% of the times this is used to fetch a final (fatal?)
usage or help message. It is not something that is done 400 times
during the lifetime of a common program.
-- Johan
