Yes, D:S is slow. On the other hand, how often does a program need to be profiled? If D:S makes the program run an order of magnitude slower, that shouldn't be a problem for most situations. I can see it being a problem if it's doing some compute-intensive work, and needing months instead of weeks to finish, but then, it wouldn't be written in Perl, would it?

Curiosity: Is the output of Devel::FastProf the same as Devel::SmallProf? I wonder if my script will work on both?

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Unfortunately, I'm in a mostly Windoze shop. It's only a Windoze shop because it's convenient, not out of some necessity. But I have a few users, and everything has to be portable to *nix too. The *nix stuff is not administered properly, and depending on which workstation my user is on, s/he may only have Perl 4 available, and other crud like that. Weirdly enough, it's easier to standardize on Windoze here, because they'd rather sling money around than administer *nix machines properly.

So everyone has XP Pro SP2 on a recent laptop. If we really need some compute power or storage, we have to jump through paperwork hoops, and entertain arguments about whose desk it goes on, etc. (It's usually "I don't want it on my desk, I just want access to it".)
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In reply to Re^3: Errors when using DProf to profile by QM
in thread Errors when using DProf to profile by bowei_99

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