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While running around the monastery, I ran into this discussion. Gee willy, a fan-dangled perl auto-obfuscator eh? Hope whatever you obfuscate is running on a mighty powerful server. Have you tried benchmarking any of the code that is created by this thing?

#!/usr/bin/perl

=head1 SYNOPSYS

A small program that does trivial things.

=cut


#here is a comment
sub doit
{
    my ($v) = @_;
    print "it's " . ($v + time()) . " seconds since epoch\n";
}

doit(2);
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Maintainer: Hey! I can read that!

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Maintainer: Wtf?!?! So this is what hell looks like. Hmmm, I thought it'd be better somehow.

Well, let's see how fast these little puppies run.

Benchmark: timing 1000 iterations of norm, wtf...
      norm:  0 wallclock secs ( 0.01 usr +  0.00 sys =  0.01 CPU) @ 12
+8000.00/s(n=1000)
       wtf: 20 wallclock secs (20.44 usr +  0.01 sys = 20.45 CPU) @ 48
+.91/s (n=1000)
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Woah! norm is some blazing code. wtf seems to be...uh...wtf!?!?! 48.91/s to execute what was 4 lines of code. Can't wait to try this on those 500kb scripts and modules that you were talking about.

I can see the reaction after the sales pitch:

Me: So let me get this straight. Anyone who will ever want to read my code again, including myself, will have to spend an eternity trying to break this down. And my spanking fast code will become so slow that I can watch the opcodes go by. How much could such a little gem possibly cost?

You: The low low price of $879 for developers! Some astronomical price for the enterprise edition! And hey, we may give you a t-shirt that says "$879 bought this t-shirt and a nifty program, but I only use one of them"!

Me: Is there a sadomasochist or I-never-want-to-be-hired-again special?

antirice
The first rule of Perl club is - use Perl
The ith rule of Perl club is - follow rule i - 1 for i > 1

In reply to Re: Here is a commercial obfuscator by antirice
in thread Here is a commercial obfuscator by Anonymous Monk

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