4 Mouse::XS - A Mouse guts in XS
8 This document describes Mouse version 0.73
12 Mouse has an optional XS implementation, which is automatically built
13 and used if available. According to benchmarks, this is about 2 times
14 faster than Mouse::PurePerl.
18 The XS implementation are selected by default, but you can force it by
19 passing the C<--xs> option to F<Makefile.PL>.
23 If you do not want to build the XS implementation, you can pass the C<--pp>
24 option to F<Makefile.PL>.
28 =head2 The MOUSE_PUREPERL (or PERL_ONLY) environment variable
30 It can be used to enable the use of Mouse::PurePerl in order to test
31 and debug programs that use Mouse.
35 The XS implementation requires Perl 5.8.1 or later, and a C compiler.