Change 33865 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2008/05/19 13:13:11

        Add "profile installman" to the TODO.

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... //depot/perl/pod/perltodo.pod#230 edit

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==== //depot/perl/pod/perltodo.pod#230 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perltodo.pod
--- perl/pod/perltodo.pod#229~33862~    2008-05-19 05:26:51.000000000 -0700
+++ perl/pod/perltodo.pod       2008-05-19 06:13:11.000000000 -0700
@@ -199,6 +199,13 @@
 
 There's a similar problem with SelfLoader.
 
+=head2 profile installman
+
+The F<installman> script is slow. All it is doing text processing, which we're
+told is something Perl is good at. So it would be nice to know what it is doing
+that is taking so much CPU, and where possible address it.
+
+
 =head1 Tasks that need a little sysadmin-type knowledge
 
 Or if you prefer, tasks that you would learn from, and broaden your skills
@@ -437,6 +444,8 @@
 want to determine what ops I<really> are the most commonly used. And in turn
 suggest evictions and promotions to achieve a better F<pp_hot.c>.
 
+One piece of Perl code that might make a good testbed is F<installman>.
+
 =head2 Allocate OPs from arenas
 
 Currently all new OP structures are individually malloc()ed and free()d.
End of Patch.

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