Interesting timing on this question. I received the latest IBM developerWorks newletter in today's email and inside I find an article about optimizing Perl.

One of the suggestions was to use AutoLoader. The full article is available here. Registration is required so I can cut and paste the pertinant portion of the article if it's OK with the powers that be. I'll avoid any copyright problems for now by not quoting from the article here but the gist of the argument for AutoLoader is that it acts as a sort of dynamic loader for modules and, when used in conjunction with AutoSplit, only loads the functions you actually use which shortens load and compile time and shrinks program size.

Could anyone comment on this? I've never used AutoLoader so I have no knowledge of nor opinion about the wisdom (or lack thereof) about doing this.

Jack

Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum
(I think I think, therefore I think I am)

In reply to Re: AutoLoader - when to use it? by jcoxen
in thread AutoLoader - when to use it? by kiat

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