Does debugging include optimization (since, theoretically, slow code == bad code)? I've been meaning for a while to look into speeding up AmphetaDesk, but don't really know what path to take (or whether there is more than one).
I know you can do a bunch of stuff with Dprof (most notably, optimizing the first three or so must run routines), but what other optimization tools are available to you? How can I find out what's the biggest structure in memory? How can I find out what variables are being stored in memory (perhaps erroneously)? Etc., etc.
http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/Fast_Enough/ http://www.panix.com/~comdog/solve_any_perl_problem.pod
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