On Mar 31, 2007, at 12:42 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote:
I'm working on trying to improve the performance of Catalyst's body
parsing. We're currently using the all-Perl HTTP::Body, and it
actually beats APR::Request for urlencoded data. The regexes are
pretty simple, so this isn't too surprising.
Still pretty impressive that you can do it faster than apreq2 can.
Have you tried comparing it with apreq2's query string parser?
That one's not stream oriented, so it should be a bit faster than
our body parser.
I think I avoided this because I wasn't sure if it took into account
any kind of query string length limit. But I'll check the code and
give it a try.
One of our grand plans is to divorce APR from mod-perl iteself,
so it can ship as a standalone set of wrappers for libapr and
libaprutil. Another is to fold apreq2's stuff into the
various projects it interacts with.
That would significantly lower the barrier to entry for apreq,
because it wouldn't even exist as a separate distribution anymore.
It would just be part of all the other stuff.
Cool. I guess there's a lot of handy memory-handling code in libapr
that would have to be replaced in order to have a completely
standalone module.
