Optimising perl

[Dave Hodgkinson]

What exactly are you trying to optimise?

How are you searching it?

Sounds to me more that you need to work through "Programming Parls"  
more than
"optimising perl".


On 23 Jun 2006, at 10:29, alex at owal.co.uk wrote:

> Can anyone suggest some reading for optimising perl? (This is  
> inherited
> code so dont blame me for lazy algorythms used :-)
>
> I am basically munging large amounts of data from files or sybase
> databases and either creating large files or filling in other sybase
> databases
>
> We are hitting memory limits and of course always want things to  
> run faster.
>
> I have had a suggestion to use Memoize but this only seems to be  
> useful on
> stateless functions ie things which will return the same value  
> every time
> the function is called with the same parameters. Right? This comes as
> standard for perl 5.8 so someone must find this useful.
>
> We are building huge hashes in memory which we might tie to disk,  
> or (my
> preference) tie to a memcached database. This gets us around the 4Gb
> memory limit in the perl binary we are using by spreading the memory
> across two processes.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Alex
>
>
>

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