Hi,

version 1.03 of libintl-perl now performs a check for the necessary tools and
libraries to build an XS version of the gettext functionality.  The C
implementation outperforms the pure Perl version by factor 10-15.

At run-time, the library will first try to load the C version
(Locale::gettext_xs), and then fall back to the pure Perl version
(Locale::gettext_pp) if bootstrapping the shared library fails.  You can
override the default behavior with the class method
Locale::Messages::select_package.

The better performance of the XS version should not con you into thinking
that the pure Perl version is unusable.  Under normal circumstances, the
relatively few calls into the library do not really fall into account.

The new version of libintl-perl is available at
  http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GU/GUIDO/libintl-perl-1.03.tar.gz

Ciao

Guido
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