SPUG: print statement taking ridiculously long

[Fred Morris]

On Tuesday 23 July 2013 10:32, Andrew Sweger wrote:
> I'm guessing that $big_string is built up by appending/concatenating
> repeatedly.

How did you guess? ;-)

Yes, the wonders of the Fibonacci series... We changed that before discovering 
that the print statement was where the real problem was. It was actually 
stringifying XML::Generator output.

Hrmmm... come to think of it I wonder if $big_string is *really* a string, or 
is really that XML::Generator output object which behaves like a string? 
Hrmmm...

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Fred