Why Perl needs a VM

[ben@bpfh.net]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 01:22:18AM -0700, Ovid wrote:
>--- ben at bpfh.net wrote:
>
>> I've had a poke at the code and sure enough, we're using
>> XPathContext, which 
>> I'd thought was a pure perl piece on top of XML::LibXML. It isn't -
>> it's got a C implementation at its heart.
>
>Pardon me for asking a potentially insulting questions, but have you
>profiled your application so that you *know* why it's slow and where? 

Yes, we have. The majority of time is not being spent in our code, 
but down in the modules. 

Ben