RE: Best way to include developer version of a module

2010-09-08 Thread Jan Dubois
You need to specify the authors CPAN directory when you want to install a developer version of a module because they are not included in the normal module index. So the “elegant” command to install that module using the CPAN shell is: cpan M/MI/MIVKOVIC/Mail-Sendmail-0.79_16.tar.gz Cheer

RE: Hash performance v. hash size setting

2010-09-08 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
Brian Raven coded: while ((!performance_acceptable()) && worth_the_effort()) { profile(); my $x = locate_worst_bottleneck(); attempt_to_improve($x); } TOO COOL. I'm going to print that out and stick it up on my cube wall. (And follow it, too!) Thanks! Deane Rothenmaier Programmer/An

RE: Hash performance v. hash size setting

2010-09-08 Thread Brian Raven
From: activeperl-boun...@listserv.activestate.com [mailto:activeperl-boun...@listserv.activestate.com] On Behalf Of deane.rothenma...@walgreens.com Sent: 08 September 2010 14:53 To: Gabor Szabo Cc: Jenda Krynicky; activeperl-boun...@listserv.activestate.com; activeperl@listserv.activestate.com Subj

RE: Hash performance v. hash size setting

2010-09-08 Thread Ludwig, Michael
> Because the actual process is rather slow--and I'm not sure there's > much to be done to speed things up, I try to pick up what snippets of > performance I can in the setup code, hence my query. I'd look for other things first: * execution model: persistent Perl process, or started anew? * ne

Re: Hash performance v. hash size setting

2010-09-08 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
>I think my philosophy is that within reasonable boundaries first >write maintainable, well tested code that does what it needs to do >and only then check if there is any performance issue. Agreed, Gabor. The code does "[do] what it needs to do..." which is maintaining an HTML Web page that report