Am I reading this right, or ignoring something obvious?

That is the way I read it as well.

I took a look at installman , here are some ideas I had for making it faster

Rewrite it so it doesn't use no_chdir, because that is supposed to be slower
File::Find::find({no_chdir=>1,

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You can also get rid of this stat (-f), because there are no directories in perl/lib or perl/pod , that end in .pm or .pod 
if (-f $_ and /\.p(?:m|od)$/) {

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Hmm, actually, you might be able to get rid of File::Find altogether by caching the file list perl\pod\buildtoc generates

But, I doubt you could make a significant dent in the runtime with these simple ideas (I guesstimate 10 seconds), due to OS level file system caching .

What would probably work better is making Pod::Man->new happen in a few threads

Oh, and I didn't even look at Pod::Simple::BlackBox :)

In reply to Re: More questions than observations on installman by Anonymous Monk
in thread More questions than observations on installman by atcroft

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