Re: speed of Net::LDAP

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 10:23:08AM +0100, Chris Ridd wrote:
> Mark's already commented that one of the bottlenecks is Net::LDAP's use 
> of a perl module for decoding the BER (ie Convert::ASN1). Writing a 
> Convert::ASN1 in C is a way around this, but as yet no-one has 
> volunteered.

I knew something was missing from my TODO list at TPC. Although I think
Convert::ASN1 still needs a little work, so it may not be ready to convert
to XS just yet. But if someone wants to try I would be happy to
discuss my thoughts.

> Another obvious issue with perl is that the first run of a piece of 
> code might be slow because it makes perl load in, parse and compile 
> lots more chunks of perl.

Personally I always use the Benchmark module for timing something.

Graham.