Ah yes...
I remember it well.
CricInfo's home grown advert engine (mod_perl resident) was running like
the proverbial drain, and being its author, I was tasked to find out why.
A brief course through Devel::DProf later, we found the top of the
profiling tree in terms of time spent to be a sub() which basically went
sub debug
{
print @_ if $AdLib::DEBUG;
}
It was using over HALF the execution time.
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