Re: speed of Net::LDAP

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

On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 12:55:32PM +0100, John Berthels wrote:
> > 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.

I think it would be better just for Convert::ASN1 to provide a way to
dump and restore itself to disk.

> 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 :-)

I have been down that road before. And it is laid with security mine fields.

I once wrote Include.pm to do what h2xs does on the fly, but it needed a
scratch directory.

Graham.