On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Peter J. Acklam wrote: > I don't see any point in making DateTime run faster unless someone > has complained about it being too slow.
It was pretty slow. I know that the main reason people use Date::Calc is that it's really fast. In order to provide a reasonable alternative I wanted to try to focus on speed as well as functionality. > Most of the computers I administer don't have C compilers (the run > Solaris). Requiring XS makes DateTime useless. I thought > DateTime was a great idea, but now I hope the older Date and Time > modules will be maintained so I can use them -- or I'll have to > roll my own modules. This leaves me at the point I was before the > DateTime project started. *groan* So you don't use DBI, DB_File or BerkeleyDB, Compress::Zlib, etc., etc.? Like I said, I could maintain a pure Perl version as well. -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/
