> > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Wiggins d Anconia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 3:48 PM > > To: Perl Beginners > > Subject: Re: Favorite email parser? > > > > > Mail::Box is excellent and incredibly thorough, which also > > means it is incredibly complex and has a pretty steep > > learning curve. It was by far the most robust mail handling > > I could find, and took me the longest to learn. It is also > > not the most efficient, but then that wasn't our goal. > > I'm using with a lot success Mail::Box and I'm curious to know > Which aspect of Mail::Box you found to be not effecient ? >
Load time mostly, since it is a massive library. For our app that didn't matter much since it runs for months at a time and we have much more overhead with POE. We are also running off a pretty old version, and with all of the memory leak fixes and the C parser, it might be significantly better than when I was doing load testing (year ago). Doubt it would stack up compared to some of the other mail parsers, but then they wouldn't in feature list come even close, but that is really a hinderance of Perl in general rather than anything specific about MB. Essentially with the need for so many objects and doing everything through methods there is a fair amount of overhead even if you just want to do something trivial, but that *is* the point, it is a very good interface for doing non-trivial things. http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
