Re: Migration despite an RC bug?
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
> Russ Allbery:
>> I've done extensive benchmarking of this in Perl for a different
>> project and yes, fork and exec of an external compresser is *way*
>> faster than using a library. I suspect the Perl compress libraries are
>> making extraneous data copies or doing something else suboptimal.
> An exception in my experience: In process is cheaper when the
> (de)compressor is available in the PerlIO Layer as native C code.
> Notable example being libperlio-gzip-perl where you use "open(my $fd,
> '<:gzip', $file)".
> At least that was the case when I benchmarked on Lintian in 2.5.10 (2
> releases ago).
Ah, I didn't try that! I was only playing around with IO::Uncompress. I
may have to go revisit that project, since managing the external process
was a huge pain.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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