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From:
David Golden
Date:
March 7, 2013 11:49
Subject:
Re: [perl #116961] Data::Dumper 2.143 tests failures on 5.10.1
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CAOeq1c_D=4hcSLBiggWTK-CjMxpT0L7c=KKX0BEitdZT43w16Q@mail.gmail.com
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Peter Rabbitson <rabbit-p5p@rabbit.us> wrote:
> This is not an ivory-tower nice-to-have - after all there is code in the
> wild (and probably even on CPAN) which uses D::D as a poor man's Sereal
> or some-such. Telling them "you need to upgrade this module, oh and btw
> your serialization code is now 100x slower" is... I can't find the right
> expletive ;)

Should we reconsider having a pure perl version at all?

Then someone who tries to upgrade without a compiler just gets "BOOM"
instead of something that works but is 100x slower.

David

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