Re: Profiling

[Doug MacEachern]

On 31 Oct 1999, Greg Stark wrote:

> 
> Does anyone have any idea how much overhead Apache::DProf or Apache::SmallProf
> add? Will it be possible to use these on a production system without having a
> severe impact?

I wouldn't using profiling on a production site, there is considerable
overhead involved with profiling.  and, as you've seen, possible oddities,
such as random core dumps.  I've seen cases such this code:
my $len = $#array + 1; #dump core
vs.
my $len = scalar @array; #no problem