RE: Perl Profiler?

2002-10-07 Thread Nikola Janceski
There is no magic in programming, just ones and zeros. but I am sure others have the same question as me... What the heck is a Profiler? Where have you seen one before? -Original Message- From: Jason Frisvold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 2:24 PM To:

Re: Perl Profiler?

2002-10-07 Thread George Schlossnagle
perldoc Devel::DProf It's a very useful and functional profiler (IMHO). George Jason Frisvold wrote: Does anyone know if there is a Perl Profiler (Open Source or Commercial) that is in existance? Apparently my boss thinks this will magically fix various issues... :) -- To

Re: Perl Profiler?

2002-10-07 Thread Jason Frisvold
Thanks, I'm looking into it now... :) We were specifically wondering if there was something that could count loops, count db calls, and related items like that ... It looks like this profiler will tell you the time spent in subroutines, but not more specifics? Of course, I need to do more

RE: Perl Profiler?

2002-10-07 Thread Jason Frisvold
A profiler is basically a program that watches another program run and outputs information on how long it ran, uses of variables, memory accesses, looping information, etc. It can be really helpful when you're trying to figure out where the bottleneck in a particular program is... It can also

Re: Perl Profiler?

2002-10-07 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Monday, October 7, 2002, at 01:26 PM, Nikola Janceski wrote: There is no magic in programming, just ones and zeros. Sure there is, in Perl especially! ;) magic - Technically speaking, any extra semantics attached to a variable such as $!, $0, %ENV, or %SIG, or to any tied variable.

Re: Perl Profiler?

2002-10-07 Thread Ovid
--- Jason Frisvold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if there is a Perl Profiler (Open Source or Commercial) that is in existance? Apparently my boss thinks this will magically fix various issues... :) Perl has many tools for this. However, profiling tools are generally used to

Re: Perl Profiler?

2002-10-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 02:37:13PM -0400, Jason Frisvold wrote: Thanks, I'm looking into it now... :) We were specifically wondering if there was something that could count loops, count db calls, and related items like that ... It looks like this profiler will tell you the time spent in