Bug#474279: ITP: libdevel-profile-perl -- tell me why my perl program runs so slowly

[Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 01:41:06PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:

> * Package name    : libdevel-profile-perl
>   Description     : tell me why my perl program runs so slowly
> 
>  The Devel::Profile package is a Perl code profiler.  This will collect
>  information on the execution time of a Perl script and of the subs in that
>  script.  This information can be used to determine which subroutines are using
>  the most time and which subroutines are being called most often.
>  .
>  To profile a Perl script, run the perl interpreter with the -d debugging
>  switch.  The profiler uses the debugging hooks.
>  .
>  So to profile script test.pl the following command should be used:
>  .
>  perl -d:Profile test.pl
>  .
>  When the script terminates (or periodicly while running) the
>  profiler will dump the profile information to a file called prof.out. This
>  file is human-readable, no additional tool is required to read it.

Hi,

what's the difference to Devel::DProf, bundled with the Perl core? 
The fact that the output file is human-readable?

Cheers,
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Niko Tyni   ntyni@debian.org