Making Programs Faster

POD Formatting

First, a note about The Big Picture
If perldoc is slow, the best solution might not to be to speed it up
The best solution might be more like this:

        for i in /src/perl-5.8.0/pod/*; do
          j=`basename $i .pod`
          pod2man $i > /usr/local/man/man1p/$j.1p
          man -F $j
        done

Then you can use man perlfunc or whatever
Perl does this automatically when it is installed
Still, there is some value in speeding up perldoc
Installing the Perl/Tk documentation takes a very long time