Sifmole has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all,

I did the search and turned up on FAQ response and one Q&A response.

What I want to know is... is DProf still the preferred profiler to use? or is there something better out there?

I will be using Benchmark as well.

Sincerely,
Sifmole

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Re: DProf
by indigo (Scribe) on Apr 11, 2001 at 23:02 UTC
    It depends what you are trying to do. My preferred profiler is "look at the code and think real hard". Primitive, but gives the best bang for the buck most the time. If I have to muck about with an actual profiler, I remind myself that Perl is a Very High Level Language, and maybe it is time to code the performance sensitive bits in C.

    But to answer your question, DProf and Benchmark are where you want to go once you determine you need to profile.
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