[Pdx-pm] March Meeting Tonight
Josh Heumann
perl-pm at joshheumann.com
Wed Mar 8 10:39:06 PST 2006
March Meeting
March 8th, 6:30pm at Free Geek, 1741 SE 10th Ave
Topic: The Guts of Perl (and why you should care)
Presenter: Eric Wilhelm
Briefly covering:
(roughly) What the perl interpreter does when you throw a program at it.
How perlguts and compiled extensions work. How to peek into perl internals
with Perl code. How this knowledge is useful.
Agenda:
* (requisite viewing of fluff / late arrivals)
* Overview of perl's parse, compile, run process.
* Possibly some mildly off-topic bits about XS, perlapi, etc.
* Tour of the B:: modules.
* (heckling)
* Comparisons between B and PPI approaches.
* (likely more heckling)
* Example code, case studies, and esoteric observations.
* (beer at the Lucky Lab)
Applications:
* Mechanically analyzing readability and refactorability of Perl code.
* Design patterns and optimization insights.
* Better understanding of what is under the hood.
* An opportunity to heckle me (heckling-based learning optional.)
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