Raf wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Perrin Harkins wrote: > >>On 1/24/07, Raf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>The code base I'm profiling is very big, monolithic and convoluted. I >>>felt that level of granularity given by smallprof would probably give me >>>more coverage - which I believe I need. >> >>Usually that's the reason you use DProf -- it gives you the big >>picture. SmallProf is only useful when you've got it down to one sub >>and you can't figure out which lines in the sub are taking the time. > > > Since you put it like that, I stand corrected and don't know what I had > been thinking. :) DProf does not seem to be causing DateTime to die, and > I suppose that while resolving my problem, it still leaves the original > question open as an X-File.
I'm not a big profiling expert, but I've heard rumors around work that we could never get Apache::DProf to really work (due to some magic in own own code), but that the apache hooks in Devel::Profiler worked much better. ymmv. --Geoff
