On May 6, 2006, at 12:34 PM, Perrin Harkins wrote:
I recommend using Imager. It's fast and easy to install. Seems to
be the image library of choice in Perl these days.
I'll give it a shot. Never heard of it before.
Has anyone benchmarked YAML against XML in Perl? YAML seems to go
to some trouble to make the output pretty.
There's this
http://idisk.mac.com/christian.hansen/Public/perl/serialize.pl
Here are just the speed marks for those that don't want to click the
link
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Deflate
Rate
YAML 99.0/s
Data::Taxi 495/s
XML::Simple 875/s
PHP::Serialization 1141/s
JSON 1185/s
RPC::XML 1305/s
YAML::Syck 2372/s
JSON::Syck 2572/s
FreezeThaw 2865/s
Convert::Bencode 3223/s
Storable 4709/s
Convert::Bencode_XS 10751/s
Inflate
Rate
YAML 75.5/s
XML::Simple 195/s
PHP::Serialization 246/s
Data::Taxi 366/s
JSON 449/s
Convert::Bencode 528/s
FreezeThaw 923/s
RPC::XML 993/s
Convert::Bencode_XS 1066/s
YAML::Syck 3140/s
JSON::Syck 3318/s
Storable 16592/s
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As you can see YAML is indeed slow. But for session (un)
serialization its completely unusable.
I did all of my xmlhhtprequest using the JSON pure perl module, and
felt a big ease on resources when i found that syck module.
Using the syck binding for yaml with session serialization totally
saved me though.
