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On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:54:31 -0500, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni <sebastien@aperghis.net> wrote: >> So I wonder what hurts *you* the most in Perl? > > In terms of Perl itself, apart from the reference syntax, the thing that > really annoyed me recently was the lack of advanced debug tools, for > example > to find memory leaks. None of the tools I found or was pointed to worked > in my case. I have to second this. Trying to track down a memory leak recently in a fairly large and complex multi-fork()ing application left me with a bunch of modules that basically stated "use this on the data structure or piece of code you already know to be leaking, and you'll get a lot of technical diagnostic information", but there seemed to be nothing I could just attach to the application in any way that would help me *find* the data structure or piece of code that was leaking. Coming up with unit tests that were complicated enough to stably reproduce the condition essentially boiled down to rewriting the entire application from scratch in a TAP-oriented way. -- Paul (PWBENNETT)Thread Previous | Thread Next