Dear Perl Monks

On my main (Ubuntu 13.04) computer "Sheep", podbrowser has suddenly started running very slowly (takes an age to respond to key presses, screen greys out while its thinking).

I uninstalled and reinstalled. No improvement whatsoever.

So I did 

    perl -d:NYTProf /usr/bin/podbrowser

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on "Sheep", and on a second computer "Tiger" (also running Ubuntu 13.04)

Now I'm lost.

Here are the NYTProf figures for "Inclusive Time" Sheep milliseconds as a multiple of Tiger milliseconds.

        2177.33    Gtk2::Ex::PodViewer::load_function
        2089.11    Gtk2::init (xsub)
        1880.71    utf8::SWASHNEW (recurses: max depth 1, inclusive ti
+me 83┬╡s)
         945.89    Gtk2::IconTheme::has_icon (xsub)
         50.79    Gtk2::Ex::PodViewer::Parser::CORE:readline (opcode)
         39.58    Gtk2::Widget::show (xsub)
         17.30    Gtk2::main
         16.50    main::generate_index
         15.27    Gtk2::GladeXML::new (xsub)
          6.34    main::CORE:match (opcode)
          7.10    Gtk2::main_iteration (xsub)
          5.11    main::toggle_mod_tree
          3.75    main::search_input_changed
          0.71    Gtk2::TreeStore::append (xsub)
          0.41    Gtk2::TreeStore::set (xsub)

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Any idea what may be the problem?

RichardH

In reply to Profile figures for /usr/bin/podbrowser suddenly running very slowly by RCH

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