I used to swear by Data::Dumper, but I don't anymore. I'm not sure about the internals, but I have to say that recently I've really come to be frustrated by it. Doing performance analysis under Win32 (Win32::PerfLib, not in CPAN), I end up dumping large hash structures all the time. When I was doing research into the format of these things I tried to get a dump of one base level object (System, for those who care).

It ended up running out of memory, swap...everything. Wouldn't finish running, it was using well over 200M of memory. I have since then written my own (somewhat dumb) replacement, took an hour or two, and suggest either following suit or searching around here for something that has enough functionality for what you need and is simpler than Data::Dumper. If there's interest, I'll post my lil snippet, but it's basically trivial.

Trinary

In reply to Re: Data::Dumper Efficiency Problem by Trinary
in thread Data::Dumper Efficiency Problem by madhatter

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