Minor improvements to perldebug.pod

Minor improvements to the section on profiling.

Remove suggestions that Devel::DProf might be the most popular
profiler and reference perlperf.pod.

diff --git a/pod/perldebug.pod b/pod/perldebug.pod
index 104653a..9e67b4d 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldebug.pod
+++ b/pod/perldebug.pod
@@ -1101,10 +1101,10 @@ your Perl as a C programmer might.
 =head2 The Perl Profiler
 X<profile> X<profiling> X<profiler>
 
-If you wish to supply an alternative debugger for Perl to run, just
+If you wish to supply an alternative debugger for Perl to run,
 invoke your script with a colon and a package argument given to the
-B<-d> flag.  The most popular alternative debuggers for Perl is the
-Perl profiler.  Devel::DProf is included with the standard Perl
+B<-d> flag.  Perl's alternative debuggers include the Perl profiler,
+L<Devel::DProf>, which is included with the standard Perl
 distribution.  To profile your Perl program in the file F<mycode.pl>,
 just type:
 
@@ -1114,7 +1114,8 @@ When the script terminates the profiler will dump the profile
 information to a file called F<tmon.out>.  A tool like B<dprofpp>,
 also supplied with the standard Perl distribution, can be used to
 interpret the information in that profile.  More powerful profilers,
-such as C<Devel::NYTProf> are available from the CPAN.
+such as C<Devel::NYTProf> are available from the CPAN:  see L<perlperf>
+for details.
 
 =head1 Debugging regular expressions
 X<regular expression, debugging>