Re^2: WWW::Mechanize::Chrome VERY slow on xpath obtaining TDs of a TR

[ait]

No, I haven't done more than simple measurements to pinpoint the delays in my own code. But because the delays in fetching the TDs in the context of a specific TR node are proportional (or maybe exponential) to the amount of TRs, it seems obvious that there's either a bug, or some intrinsic limitation in the way that xpath is implemented (e.g. re-parsing the whole page every time).

[marto]

Benchmarking within Chrome developer tools should point you in the right direction, if this is way faster than the perl code running your script in the debugger should quickly let you know if this is a limitation or bug with the perl module.