I commented to my own bug report, and a sample structure is attached. Building Storable 2.18 for 5.6 is going to be really, really tough these days on my Windows machine which is where I found the problem. If I had a time machine... On Jan 29, 2008 4:53 AM, Nicholas Clark via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:26:34AM -0800, Clinton A. Pierce wrote: > > > To duplicate a large expat-parsed XML structure (with refs of refs of > refs), > > > > I'm doing the following: > > > > > > my $temp = Storable::freeze $originalXml; > > my $copyXml = Storable::thaw($temp); > > > > > > And by "large" I mean about 8MB when dumped with Data::Dumper. Under > Perl > > 5.6 > > the "freeze" takes fractions of a second. Under Perl 5.10 it takes many > > seconds > > (between 5-8 seconds). > > Do you have a sample data structure you can attach? > Do you have results for perl 5.8.8? > > 5.10 comes with Storable 2.18. If you download this from CPAN and build it > for 5.6, is it slow? > > Nicholas Clark > > >Thread Previous | Thread Next