[roch-pm] Perl.com: Optimizing Your Perl (fwd)

Brian Mathis bmathis at directedge.com
Thu Feb 14 14:27:55 CST 2002


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Hello, world! This is Simon Cozens, www.perl.com managing editor,
bringing you the latest goings on from the world of Perl and our
own site.

* Perl at large.

Dan Sugalski, as part of his work under the Perl Foundation
Development Grant, is taking on the mantle of the Perl
Foundation's fundraising coordinator. This means that if you
use Perl heavily, work for a company that uses Perl heavily,
or run a company that uses Perl heavily, Dan would like to hear
from you. He's looking in particular for names of CEOs and CTOs
that he can talk to and attempt to extract money from. If you'd
like your firm to give something back to Perl, Dan might be able
to help you. Drop him a line on

    dan at sidhe.org

There have been a whole bunch of new CPAN mirrors registered in
the recent past: 19 since November means there are now 212
mirrors globally. One of those 19 might be closer to you, so
take a look where they all are:

    http://use.perl.org/articles/02/02/10/1839208.shtml
    http://mirror.cpan.org/

* What's new on www.perl.com?

Bryan Warnock provides us with a summary of all the latest Perl 6
activity for the past two weeks, including why Parrot is now
completely broken, (it's been fixed since, at least in part...)
why the regular expression engine isn't written in Parrot, what's
the deal about Unicode strings, and a lot more.

    http://www.perl.com/2002/02/p6pdigest/20020209.html

Everyone wants to write faster code, but not everyone has the
right idea about how to go about it. Sometimes you might gain a
bit of speed by mucking about with the algorithm, but in this
article from Robert Spier, we look at how you can gain efficiency
and measure the efficiency of your code by looking at the data
structures. If you've ever heard people talking about big-Os and
wondered if they're a kind of breakfast cereal, this article is
for you:

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/02/12/bigo.html/

Enjoy!

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*** Featured Articles ***

Optimizing Your Perl
Is your perl program taking too long to run? This might be because
you've chosen a data structure or algorithm that takes a long time
to run. By rethinking how you've implemented a function, you might
be able to realize huge gains in speed.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/02/12/bigo.html

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Visual Perl
Most Perl programmers are die-hard command line freaks, but those
coming to Perl on Windows may be used to a more graphical way to
edit programs. We asked the lead developer of the new Visual Perl
plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio to tell us the advantages of a
graphical IDE.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/02/05/visperl.html

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Beginning PMCs
Parrot promises to give us support for extensible data types.
Parrot Magic Cookie classes are the key to extending Parrot and
providing support for other languages, and Jeff Goff shows us how
to create them.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/30/pmcs.html

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