in reply to Perl bytecode

You'll want to use something in the B module hierarchy.

Re: Advanced Perl Programming, 2nd edition walks through some detailed examples of how to examine the opcode tree (I think with B::Generate, but I don't have the book with me at the moment).

Update:

perl -MO=Debug foo.pl

This may quickly give you what you want.

-xdg

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