[Chicago-talk] faster -h

[JT Smith]

It seems like one way around it would be to either do an eval{} wrapped in an if around 
your use statements :

eval {"use MyBigModule"} unless $onlyDoingUsage;

Or you could use require to do the same thing:

require MyBigModule unless $onlyDoingUsage;


On Sat, 07 May 2005 05:38:24 -0500
  Whitney Jackson <whjackson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> So I have this Perl program that uses some hefty modules and as a result
> it takes a second or two just to get going.  Most of the time I don't
> care because it's relatively long running and the loading time isn't
> noticeable.  However, it's annoying to have to wait when I just want
> usage information.  So I'm wondering if there's some way to do the
> GetOptions stuff up front and then avoid the "use SuchAndSuch;" when I
> find a -h or usage violation.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Just to make things a bit more concrete:
> 
> $ ./pctrl -h
> 
> with all the modules:          2.105 seconds
> with a minimal set of modules: 0.318 seconds
> 
> Whitney
> 
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