on optimization, too. Advice on benchmarking boils down to: benchmark
and profile to make sure you're optimizing the right part, look for
better algorithms instead of microtuning your code, and when all else
-fails consider just buying faster hardware.
+fails consider just buying faster hardware. You will probably want to
+read the answer to the earlier question ``How do I profile my Perl programs?''
+if you haven't done so already.
A different approach is to autoload seldom-used Perl code. See the
AutoSplit and AutoLoader modules in the standard distribution for