On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 01:58:03PM -0500, bulk88 wrote: > Dave Mitchell wrote: > >Perl defines the LIKELY() and UNLIKELY() macros, which (under gcc) > >tell the compiler whether a particular expression is likely to be true or > >not. This allows you to re-write something like > > Why do it by hand, rather than use > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile-guided_optimization with a real > work load (what is a real workload?)? Well, there's the rub. perl doesn't have a standard "workload" suite. The test suite is specifically not useful for this sort of thing, since it likes testing edge cases and exercising all those branches that would normally not be taken. And one person's "standard" workload is another person's atypical one. Realistically, any profiling should be done by the end user on perl running their own applications to build a perl optimised for their own workload. -- You live and learn (although usually you just live).Thread Previous | Thread Next