The Trouble with Reference Counting

Jan 25, 2021 by David Farrell

perl-internals

garbage-collection

tracing

optimization

Is tracing garbage collection a realistic alternative?

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The road to a 55x speedup with XS

Jun 14, 2016 by David Farrell

development

xs

c

uri_encode_xs

uri_escape

percent_encoding

optimization

benchmark

The power of C with the pleasure of Perl

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Benchmarking subroutine signatures

May 12, 2014 by David Farrell

development

subroutine

method

optimization

We review native subroutine signatures speed and show you how to make them faster

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Make your code run faster with Perl's secret turbo module

Jan 21, 2014 by David Farrell

development

module

multicore

optimization

multithreading

Multi-core programming is a breeze with MCE

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Profiling Perl

Jun 24, 2004 by Simon Cozens

development

optimization

profiler

profiling

speed

Update: Perl Profiling has evolved since this article was written, please see http://www.perl.org/about/whitepapers/perl-profiling.html for the latest information. Everyone wants their Perl code to run faster. Unfortunately, without understanding why the code is taking so long to start with, it’s impossible…

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A Refactoring Example

Oct 9, 2003 by Michael Schwern

development

faster

optimization

perl

refactoring

speed

style-guides

About a year ago, a person asked the Fun With Perl mailing list about some code they had written to do database queries. It’s important to note that this person was posting from an .it address; why will become…

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