Re: [PROPOSAL] docs, tables, tests

[Joe Schaefer <jo...@sunstarsys.com>]

Joe Schaefer <jo...@sunstarsys.com> writes:


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>   2) Factor the Apache::*::Table packages into separate modules.
>      If we want to be nice, we could C<<require>> those modules 
>      whenever Apache::Request or Apache::Cookie generates a table,
>      that way users wouldn't notice the table refactoring (yes
>      it's a minor performace hit, but IMO reasonable since perl's 
>      TIEHASH API is really slow anyways).

I just tried this, separating Apache::Request::Table from
Apache::Request.  Stripping the symbols from the .so's,
we have the following file sizes:

  original Request.so:  42 K
  new      Request.so:  34 K
  new        Table.so:  28 K

I was actually expecting a more significant size reduction than 23%.
Since the combined size of the split is 62 K, ~ 52% larger than the
original.  It now looks to me like splitting out the tables into 
separate modules will be a bad idea, so I won't pursue this item
further.

-- 
Joe Schaefer