Bug#516409: libclone-perl: works slower than Storable::dclone on hashes with big number of keys

[Eugene V. Lyubimkin]

Package: libclone-perl
Version: 0.31-1
Severity: normal


The documentation says that Clone::clone works faster than
Storable::dclone. However, this is not true for hashes with big number
of keys. A simple attached benchmark shows the difference by two factor,
and on my real-world examples this number increases to three.

Please advance the documentation for Clone accordingly.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-rc7jackyf (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libclone-perl depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  perl                          5.10.0-19  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-base [perlapi-5.10.0]    5.10.0-19  minimal Perl system

libclone-perl recommends no packages.

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