in reply to Re^2: Speeding up RecDesent parser for Perl Code
in thread Speeding up RecDesent parser for Perl Code

PPI spits out an object tree, so it's not a case of parse, rather 
my @packages = PPI::Document->new('filename.pm')
                            ->find('PPI::Statement::Package');

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