Re: speed of Net::LDAP

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

> > 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.

Nod. Just making sure I understood.

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

Sorry - I meant a 'transparent' cache of recently used ASN.1 definitions.

Given a writable scratch area the Convert::ASN1 could in principle check
to see if a compiled version exists whenever a request to load a set of
ASN.1 definitions comes in. That way the modules/apps which use it would
not need to explicitly save a compiled version at install time. Almost
certainly not worth the effort, though.

However, such a 'standard scratch area' for modules might be an
interesting idea to feed into future perl6 lib discussions (the CPAN
module would benefit, for one). I don't think its a good time to bring it
up on perl6-bootstrap though :-)

regards,

jb