Re: speed of Net::LDAP

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

On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 11:21:21AM +0100, John Berthels wrote:
> Thats interesting, because it hints that XSing Convert::ASN1 might not
> help as much as might be expected (is parsing much quicker in C than
> perl?).

XSinf Convert::ASN1 is to help runtime, not startup. I do not expect to
place the parser into XS.

> Would a reasonable approach to be to have 'compile' and 'decompile'
> methods in Convert::ASN1 which convert between 'readable' :-) ASN.1 and
> something nearer the internal representation? Then, as you say, do a
> 'compile' on install or first run and save the results? 

That is exactly what I was refering to.

> (I guess there
> isn't a sensible place to keep an on-disk cache of compiled ASN1
> definitions).

Huh? alongside the .pm file.

Graham.