NAME

Starch::Plugin::Sereal - Use Sereal for cloning and diffing Starch data structures.

SYNOPSIS

my $starch = Starch->new(
    plugins => ['::Sereal'],
);

DESCRIPTION

By default "clone_data" in Starch::State and "is_data_diff" in Starch::State use Storable to do the heavy lifting. This module replaces those two methods with ones that use Sereal which can be leaps and bounds faster than Storable.

In this author's testing is_data_diff will be about 3x faster with Sereal and clone_data will be about 1.5x faster with Sereal.

MANAGER ATTRIBUTES

These attributes are added to the Starch::Manager class.

sereal_encoder

An instance of Sereal::Encoder.

sereal_decoder

An instance of Sereal::Decoder.

canonical_sereal_encoder

An instance of Sereal::Encoder with the canonical option set.

MODIFIED MANAGER METHODS

These methods are added to the Starch::Manager class.

clone_data

Modified to use "sereal_encoder" and "sereal_decoder" to clone a data structure.

is_data_diff

Modified to use "canonical_sereal_encoder" to encode the two data structures.

SUPPORT

Please submit bugs and feature requests to the Starch-Plugin-Sereal GitHub issue tracker:

https://github.com/bluefeet/Starch-Plugin-Sereal/issues

AUTHORS

Aran Clary Deltac <bluefeet@gmail.com>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to ZipRecruiter for encouraging their employees to contribute back to the open source ecosystem. Without their dedication to quality software development this distribution would not exist.

LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.