I'm using AUTOLOADed accessors in a base class and
currently it installs the accessor in the symbol table:

sub AUTOLOAD {
  ...
  *{$AUTOLOAD} = sub { ... }; 
  goto &$AUTOLOAD;
}

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However, I think that code installs it into each sub-class. Installing it in the base class would be better and easy enough, but I'm more concerned about whether I should be doing it at all under mod_perl. According to my "mod_perl guide" brain-washing, you should avoid importing symbols to save memory. So why not just do it in AUTOLOAD? (performance vs memory???) 

sub AUTOLOAD {
  my($attr) = $AUTOLOAD =~ /^.*::(.+)$/;
  return $_->{$attr}; 
}

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I really should just do some testing...

This code isn't in production so can be changed freely.

Thanks, Brad

In reply to AUTOLOAD & mod_perl memory by bsb

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