By Steven Lembark from NY.pm
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 08:00 AM
Duration: 50 minutes
Target audience: Any
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Most users don't ever realize just how much of a memory hog Perl is. Being Perl, however, the language makes it easy to find out. Using Devel::Peel and Devel::Size. This talk uses both to peer into scalars, arrays, and hashes and shows some ways to reduce the overhead when dealing with long-lived or high-volume applications.
Viewers should walk away with enough understanding of the modules to track memory use in their own code.