Re: Speeding up method calls not *that* important [Was: Pod::StdParser]

[Barrie Slaymaker]

Brad Appleton wrote:
> 
> Darn - I was hoping to gte a major speedup out of that. I got
> almost a 10X speedup alone merely from modifying the code to
> do <$fh> instead of $fh->getline when possible.

Yoiks!

> Last time I looked at it, methods calls were one of the main
> bottlenecks in Pod::Parser, but that was before 5.005_003.

It's still probably worth another look, benchmarks being as reliable as they are ;-).

- Barrie