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TorgoX (1933)

TorgoX
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Journal of TorgoX (1933)

Friday August 30, 2002
05:48 AM

Pod lightning

[ #7411 ]
Dear Log,

After writing hundreds of tests for my new in-the-works Pod parser (where I have test code like I like L<< SWITCH B<<< E<115>tatements >>>|perlsyn/Basic I<<<< BLOCKs >>>> and Switch StatementE<115> >>), I actually ran some real documents thru it -- perlfunc and perltoc. On my not exactly fast laptop, all of perlfunc took two seconds to turn it into wrapped and indented XML; and perltoc took six seconds -- probably because of all the little tiny paragraphs; there's a per-paragraph overhead in the processing.
And those are the two longest pod documents I see in my local Perl install (about a quarter-meg each).

I wrote the whole system to work not to be fast; so I'm sort of surprised that it's pretty fast.


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  • It'd be great to get hold of a whole load of POD parser tests, sort of like the generic DBI test suite in DBD::CSV.

    Throwing your example there at POD::SAX of course made it create invalid output ;-) But I'll fix it.
    • OK, fixed for that issue, and Pod::SAX 0.11 uploaded to CPAN ;-)

      Also restarted the AxKit wiki with this new version installed, in case you wanted to test any other stuff.
    • It'd be great to get hold of a whole load of POD parser tests, sort of like the generic DBI test suite in DBD::CSV.

      It'll all be released soon.

      I also imagine that it'll be easy to retrofit Pod::Sax to my new parser module.

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