Dear Monks,
When we build Java applets, there are commonly available tools to strip out code that will not execute and so reduce the size of the bytecode.

Is there anything you know of that can do this for Perl? For a specific .pl file it would traverse the heirarchy of inherited PMs and produce a PL file with local subroutines copied in. The larger body of code not used in the .pm files would not be there.
I am aware that one can request only specific functions via inheritance. Our enquiry is about producing stand-alone PL files.
I know this proposed tool might prevent ///e, symbolic referencing, eval, XS, etc etc.
I actually suspect there might be something in B:: that might do what I am after. The deparser?!

Any advice you have would be gratefully grokked. Cheers,
bobajobRob

In reply to Optimise Perl code pl file by Anonymous Monk

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