Dumpxs in Data::Dumper

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Re: Dumpxs in Data::Dumper by syphilis (Archbishop) on Apr 01, 2010 at 11:00 UTC
When you call Dump() it will automatically call Dumpxs() unless certain conditions exist. You can see those conditions in the Dump() source code. If any of those "certain conditions" do exist, then Dumpperl() gets called instead of Dumpxs() - because Dumpperl() can handle those conditions whereas Dumpxs() cannot. Dumpxs() is deemed preferable as the code for it is written in C, and it's therefore faster than the pure perl Dumpperl() implementation. Dump() is the only function you call, and it takes care of all of this automatically for you. To help guide you, the documentation specifies the conditions that will determine whether Dump() calls Dumpxs() or Dumpperl(). Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re: Dumpxs in Data::Dumper by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Apr 02, 2010 at 00:57 UTC
After googling this for a couple of hours, it seems that Dumpxs should be used in situations where you have massive amounts of data to process. It's more graphically concise than Dumper. I threw together two examples---they don't use massive amounts of data:). The 1st script uses Dumper, and the 2nd script uses Dumpxs. You'll notice the difference: `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Devel::DumpSizes qw/dump_sizes/; use Data::Dumper; my $path = system('find /usr/bin/pdf'); &Devel::DumpSizes::dump_sizes($path); my $d = Data::Dumper->new([$path]); print Dumper $d;` [download] `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Devel::DumpSizes qw/dump_sizes/; use Data::Dumper; my $path = system('find /usr/bin/pdf'); &Devel::DumpSizes::dump_sizes($path); my $d = Data::Dumper->new([$path]); print $d->Dumpxs;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]