NAME

URI::Encode::XS - a Perl URI encoder/decoder using C

SYNOPSIS

  use URI::Encode::XS qw/uri_encode uri_decode/;

  my $encoded = uri_encode($data);
  my $decoded = uri_decode($encoded);

DESCRIPTION

This is a Perl module that wraps my C URI encoder/decoder based on RFC3986. This module always encodes characters that are not unreserved.

I've benchmarked it and found it significantly faster than URI::Escape at encoding and decoding:

            Rate escape encode
escape  141724/s     --   -96%
encode 3491116/s  2363%     --
              Rate unescape   decode
unescape  193807/s       --     -96%
decode   4835488/s    2395%       --

However this is just one string - the fewer encoded/decoded characters are in the string, the closer the benchmark is likely to be (see bench for details of the benchmark). Different hardware will yield different results.

Another fast encoder/decoder which supports custom escape lists, is URI::XSEscape.

INSTALLATION

  $ cpan URI::Encode::XS

Or

  $ git clone https://github.com/dnmfarrell/URI-Encode-XS
  $ cd URI-Encode-XS
  $ perl Makefile.PL
  $ make
  $ make test
  $ make install

LICENSE

See LICENSE

AUTHOR

© 2016 David Farrell