How can I persist a large Perl object for re-use between runs?

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Published on 2010-05-25T10:52:05Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 14:51 UTC
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I've got a large XML file, which takes over 40 seconds to parse with XML::Simple.

I'd like to be able to cache the resulting parsed object so that on the next run I can just retrieve the parsed object and not reparse the whole file.

I've looked at using Data::Dumper but the documentation is a bit lacking on how to store and retrieve its output from disk files. Other classes I've looked at (e.g. Cache::Cache appear designed for storage of many small objects, not a single large one.

Can anyone recommend a module designed for this?

EDIT. The XML file is ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc-index.xml

On my Mac Pro benchmark figures for reading the entire file with XML::Simple vs Storable are:

      s/iter  test1  test2
test1   47.8     --  -100%
test2  0.148 32185%     --

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