Parrot, Perl 5 and performance

2007-03-12 Thread ozgune
Hi all, I'd like to get opinions from developers on this list. I'm looking into this system that executes massive amounts of Perl 5 code on a Perl 5.8 interpreter. The system burns tons of CPU while running Perl code, and I'm speculating on ways to improve our throughput (say, 50 billion inst per

Re: Parrot, Perl 5 and performance

2007-03-13 Thread ozgune
Thanks for the reply. To be a little more specific, we have internally tens of thousands of Perl modules. Before running them in production: we profile these modules, pass them through a circular reference detector (code that intercepts all allocations, and at certain intervals walks over Perl's S