On Friday 28 May 2004 01:36 pm, Stas Bekman wrote:
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/APR/Date.html
Are these parsers any faster than the perl module ones? (Ie. any reason for using these over Date::Time or similar?)
They are written in C, so if Date::Time is not, APR::Date is probably faster. But don't take my word for granted as I didn't benchmark -- run Benchmark.pm and post your findings to the list for the rest to know. Thanks!
I finally got chance to do this, here's the results from parsing 'Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT', with 10000 iterations using Benchmark::timethis. There's actually quite a number of different date parsing modules on cpan, each of which does something slightly different.
Would you be willing to add other modules to your benchmark? I would be interested to see how HTTP::Date and DateTime::Format::HTTP (which uses HTTP::Date) compare.
Thanks, Stuart Johnston
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