You may sometimes have questions about why your Perl program is running so long. It is possible to get very nice profiling information that tells you exactly where your program spends its time. This is called the Perl Profiler, and it is described very nicely in the following places:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/06/25/profiling.html http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/perl/perlnut/ch06_05.htm http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/perl/prog3/ch20_06.htm In brief, you run perl with the option -d::DProf, which requires that you have the Devel::DProf module installed. http://search.cpan.org/~ilyaz/DProf-19990108/DProf.pm Enjoy, Ted -- Ted Pedersen http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hvd87h2/M=323294.6903898.7846636.3189767/D=groups/S=1705082353:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124039518/A=2896129/R=0/SIG=11llkm9tk/*http://www.donorschoose.org/index.php?lc=yahooemail";>DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today</a>!</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nlpatumd/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
