* Pali Rohár <pali.ro...@gmail.com> [2016-05-12 20:23]: > If both functions should do same thing, why we have duplicity?
Encode.pm is big and fairly slow, because it handles a zillion encodings and has lots of options for handling invalid input data. Perl needs only UTF-8 transcoding and needs it fast, so it has code for just that. Since that code is there anyway, it can just as well be exposed to Perl space. > And which one is preferred to use? Well, either you need Encode.pm or you don’t. The built-ins are faster and always loaded, but they only do UTF-8 and if you have invalid data then all you get is a false return value and no other help. If you need anything else you pay the memory and take the speed hit of Encode.pm. (If you are working on a large application, chances are high that you have Encode.pm loaded anyway.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
