Bug #28925 for PDF-API2:

Tue Aug 21 08:16:00 2007 pwomack [...] papermule.co.uk - Ticket created

Startup time is too long. Let me expand, because that sounds very critical. I am using PDF::API2 because it is mature and well supported. However, I am currently using it to extract simply meta information from PDF, notably bounding boxes and number of pages in a document. This run very nicely - thank you. But I have noticed (under -d:DPro) that in fact, the majority of the time is being spent in start up, and my actual request is dealt with VERY fast indeed. A brief reading of the code (guided by the profile) reveals that quite a lot of data is read from configuration files, ready for use when modifiying PDFs; since I don't (in fact) do that, this is not desirable. Would it be feasible to defer reading in this data until the user request an actual modification command? Alternatively (since I'm in a minority) would it be possible to have a "don't initialise data structures or import modules used for modification" option, with would be disabled by default?

Sat Sep 01 21:10:34 2007 alfredreibenschuh [...] gmx.net - Correspondence added

do you have patches?

Sat Sep 01 21:10:36 2007 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Mon Sep 03 04:10:55 2007 pwomack [...] papermule.co.uk - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #28925]
Date:	Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:04:57 +0100
To:	bug-PDF-API2 [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	paul womack <pwomack [...] papermule.co.uk>

Alfred Reibenschuh via RT wrote: Show quoted text

> <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28925 > > > do you have patches? >

Good grief, no! I'm (moderately) busy on other projects, and improving performance in an area where people aren't complaining has been pushed down my to do list. I also need to understand rather more of the code than I presently do before making such far reaching changes. I'm only using the read-side of the code, but I need to understand the write-side before altering the initialisation. BugBear

Sat Nov 03 16:38:04 2007 alfredreibenschuh [...] gmx.net - Correspondence added

*wontfix*

Sat Nov 03 16:38:05 2007 alfredreibenschuh [...] gmx.net - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'