[SPUG-Workers] April Meeting

[Andrew Sweger]

Cool. Announcement going out shortly.

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Steve Baylis wrote:

> Hey Andy,
> 
> Since the meeting is next week, I guess we should send the
> announcement and I should wrap up my presentation...
> 
> Below are the blurbs so you can send the announcement.  You can use
> Craig for the contact person for access.  His number is 206.579.7113.
> 
> 
> Who: Steve Baylis
> I have been programming in Perl for the last ten years and I'm
> currently the Lead Architect at WhitePages.com.  In my position, I am
> responsible for ensuring our applications respond quickly and scale
> efficiently. Given that we are a top 100 web property and all of our
> code is in Perl, I have learned a *lot* about squeezing performance
> from Perl.
> 
> What: Introduction to Making Perl Faster
> Everyone knows "There's more than one way to do it", but that
> generally means there's a fast way and a slow way and probably more
> than a few in between.  Sometimes to get the best performance, you
> have to sacrifice RAM or readability or both.  Sometimes, it's not
> worth it.  Sometimes it is.  In my presentation, I'll use show how
> we've tuned some large applications to get better performance as well
> as demonstrate some simple things everyone can do to make their code
> more efficient.
> 
> -Steve
> 

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