A three part think

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On Friday 12 October 2007 11:46:11 Jesse Vincent wrote:

> On Oct 12, 2007, at 12:58 PM, Simon Wistow wrote:

> > Part the second: What percentage of modules on CPAN use XS?
>
> On a local minicpan (current revs of everything)
>
> 1337 dists of 13829 appear to have 4052 files containing 1787122
> lines of XS ending in .xs by my count. Of course, 10% of that (177356
> lines) is P5NCI.xs. And another 171594 lines are in Graphics-VTK.

All of P5NCI.xs is generated code, and it *barely* uses any interesting XS 
features besides handling arguments from the Perl stack.

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