Re: profiling the Markup Validator with Devel::NYTProf

On Apr 7, 2008, at 18:33 , Ville Skyttä wrote:
> I may not be aware of all the quirks that need to be taken into  
> account and
> patches below can thus introduce some bugs, but here are some  
> numbers taken
> on my box, running encoding_from_meta_element on the HTML 5 spec:
>
> Vanilla 0.56: about 20 seconds.
>
> 0.56 patched to decode only the last retrieved 8kB chunk, and not  
> maintaining
> the big buffer at all: about 0.4 seconds.  See attached
> decode-last-chunk-only.patch.
>
> 0.56 patched to use HTML::HeadParser: about 0.13 seconds.  See  
> attached
> use-headparser.patch.
>
> 0.56 patched with both decode-last-chunk-only.patch and use- 
> headparser.patch:
> no measurable difference to the use-headparser.patch only case.
> <decode-last-chunk-only.patch><use-headparser.patch>


Wow, nice find Ville.
I pinged Björn, who maintains HTML::Encoding, about it.

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olivier