First test results:

Testdata: 

({"startup-req-3",5,"PerlMud-i3",0,"*gcs",0,0,0,0,0,0,0,"PerlLib v1","
+PerlLib v1","Perl v5.6.1","Perl","restricted access","blah@blah.de",(
+["tell":1,"ucache":1,]),0,})

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IO's code produces [], merlyns 'undef' <- (I tried to change the parens to ([ ]) etc. here), Gilimanjaros gives up on the hash, demerphqs parser is created before the benchmark runs.
So I guess the timings are a little skewed anyway ;)

Benchmark:
running
        IO, castaway, demerhpq, merlyn, browserUK
, each for at least 5 CPU seconds
...
IO:  1 wallclock secs ( 1.09 usr +  0.01 sys =  1.10 CPU) @ 37.27/s (n
+=41)
browserUK:  1 wallclock secs ( 1.04 usr +  0.01 sys =  1.05 CPU) @ 113
+.33/s (n=119)
castaway:  1 wallclock secs ( 1.07 usr +  0.00 sys =  1.07 CPU) @ 103.
+74/s (n=111)
demerhpq:  1 wallclock secs ( 1.07 usr +  0.00 sys =  1.07 CPU) @  3.7
+4/s (n=4)
merlyn:  1 wallclock secs ( 1.04 usr +  0.01 sys =  1.05 CPU) @ 187.62
+/s (n=197)

            Rate  demerhpq        IO  castaway browserUK    merlyn
demerhpq  3.74/s        --      -90%      -96%      -97%      -98%
IO        37.3/s      897%        --      -64%      -67%      -80%
castaway   104/s     2675%      178%        --       -8%      -45%
browserUK  113/s     2932%      204%        9%        --      -40%
merlyn     188/s     4919%      403%       81%       66%        --

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Benchmark called like this:
cmpthese(-5, {
#              Gilimanjaro   => sub {my @arr = parse($testarray1)},
               castaway     => sub {my @arr = lpcarray_to_array( $test
+array1 ); print Dumper(@arr)},
               IO               => sub{my @arr = lpcarray_to_arrayIO( 
+$testarray1 ); print Dumper(@arr)},
               merlyn         => sub{my @arr = parse_string( $testarra
+y1); print Dumper(@arr)},
               demerhpq    => sub{my $arr = $parser->expr($testarray1)
+; print Dumper($arr)},;
               browserUK   => sub{my $arr = build_structure($testarray
+1); print Dumper($arr)}});

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More to come when I figure out how to get the rest running properly ;)

Update: Hmm, that seems to be junk, since cmpthese isn't reading $testarray1 (which is declared as 'my').. *sigh*
Update 2: Real results, I hope, thanks BrowserUK!
my script results (not a full time webserver)

C.

In reply to Re: Parsing Text into Arrays.. by castaway
in thread Parsing Text into Arrays.. by castaway

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