Re: speed of Net::LDAP

[John B. <joh...@ne...>]

> For what it is worth, I don't find Net::LDAP to be unusably slow - the 
> nice API and the portability make up for a lot.

Ditto. I find that the startup time kills perceived performance for
one-shot scripts, but once running it is fine. Whether or not this is a
problem depends, of course, on your intended application.

I posted some numbers on this some time ago which hinted that Net::LDAP
was significantly slower than other perl modules to start up - but the
problem is to find 'comparable' modules. It is slower than Net::SMTP - but
that is a lot simpler. It is slower than Tk - but Graham pointed out that
that defers loading of code until it is used, i.e. you take the hit later
in the script.

Would there be any value in deferring some Net::LDAP module loading until
it was needed or are we already as lean as we could get in that area?
(sorry - being lazy and not checking).

regards,

jb