NAME PPI::XS - XS acceleration for the PPI perl parser DESCRIPTION PPI::XS provides XS-based acceleration of the core PPI packages. It selectively replaces a (small but growing) number of methods throughout PPI with identical but much faster C versions. Once installed, it will be auto-detected and loaded in by PPI completely transparently. Because the C implementations are linked to the perl versions of the same function, it is preferable to upgrade PPI::XS any time you do a major upgrade of PPI itself. If the two fall out of sync, the integration between the two is designed to degrade gracefully. PPI::XS is capable of determining which functions are no longer equal, and will simple leave the perl version alone, deleting the C version to free up the memory. If the versions of the two get so far apart that they become completely incompatible, PPI::XS will simply silently not load at all. Beyond that, there isn't that much more you really need to know. :) SUPPORT Bugs should always be submitted via the CPAN bug tracker, located at For other issues or comments, contact the maintainer. AUTHOR Richard Soderburg (Maintainer), erm@erm.erm Adam Kennedy, , cpan@ali.as SEE ALSO PPI COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2005 Richard Soderberg and Adam Kennedy. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.