[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.18.2-1 (x86) [test] Attn Maintainers with perl reqs

[David Stacey]

On 04/05/14 08:04, Achim Gratz wrote:
> David Stacey writes:
>>   I've built perl-Text-CSV_XS-1.07 for perl-5.18.2 on 32-bit
>>   Cygwin. Functionally, everything seems OK. However, the performance of
>>   the test harness was quite poor. With perl-5.14.2, the
>>   perl-Text-CSV_XS test harness rattled through in 8 seconds; with
>>   perl-5.18.2 it was 68 seconds (same PC) - that's over 8x slower. Is
>>   this something you were expecting?
> Yes, if you set TEST_VERBOSE=1 you'll see that with the old Perl you've
> skipped some 20000 tests with the message "Encode is too old for these
> tests", which is no longer the case.  Skipping these tests with the new
> Perl gets the test times back to where they were, if not slightly
> faster.

Thanks for explaining - I hadn't spotted that because the number of 
tests reported was the same for both versions of perl. I'll do some more 
testing and upload a test version in the next day or so.

Dave.


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