Well, to justify some of my points.

This module is huge because the data it processes is really complex. Its handling strings from another program which report up to 200 different enviromental conditions in a working environment. The string can report 0-200 of these conditions at any one time and all of the values need to be available.

Therefore, say someone wanted to know the oxygen content of the environment, they would take the environmental data string from the test equipment and send it to the module, which decodes it and returns all the factors as object variables.

If there was no oxygen data, then the variable containing its content value would be undef and there program using the module would take appropriate action to report that.

I have looked and looked again and this module and made two or three small programs, optimised to do certain tasks and then combined.

The big problems is that the whole problem requires the decoding and handling of various text strings, something I find Perl unmatched for, however the nature of the data is what is forcing the size of the module!

I'd like to use mod_perl, but never used it before and cant find any clear details on implementing it.

- Jed

In reply to RE: RE: Memory usage in Perl. by Speedfreak
in thread Memory usage in Perl. by Speedfreak

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