I have no problem in rating a module. I could do this day and night and not fear that I'm "discriminating" the author. But if I do this in some hidden thread @ PM (perlmonks), or in PM (personal mail), I will help an/several order(s) of magnitude less people, than if CPAN natively provided such a voting/commentary mechanism.
E.g. comment for a given module:
Tree::Nary
- the author has not time to maintain it
- it is written as a 1:1 transcript from a C
implementation of Nary trees. Moreover
it uses a hash for every node. If native
Perl structures were used such as Lists,
the memory requirements would go down 50%
and the speed improve by a factor of 5.
- if the module was rewritten more radically
so an object would be a whole tree (using lists
of lists) and not every leaf, this would
give a memory requirement of 25% of the CPAN
solution and a speed improvement by a factor of
38!
How do I know? I have these implementations here.
Will I contribute them? Not to this CPAN.
Lingua::NL::Numbers
- generates simply wrong output. Bug: 1100 is "duisend"
(thousand)
Lingua::IT::Numbers
- requires 5.8.2 with no reason
- The most bloated module I've ever seen. requires
Regexp::Common::numbers for NO reason.
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