Re: Cutting down on the DEBUG bloat

[Mike Whitaker <mi...@altrion.org>]

Ah yes...

I remember it well.

CricInfo's home grown advert engine (mod_perl resident) was running like 
the proverbial drain, and being its author, I was tasked to find out why.

A brief course through Devel::DProf later, we found the top of the 
profiling tree in terms of time spent to be a sub() which basically went

sub debug 
{
	print @_ if $AdLib::DEBUG;
}

It was using over HALF the execution time.
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