Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Got a set of nice mails about Devel::NYTProf for perl profiling; apparently that would be the way to go if the problems were not so (relatively) trivial to find - thanks lazyweb.
Read bugs, followed mail, still pretty groggy; updated to the latest factory packages. Chat with Vincent. Lunch. Poked make_installer.pl again - saved another 2 seconds by the somewhat counter-intuitive trick of turning a 60k entry array into a single string, and then running 20 (pre-compiled) regexps on it - instead of doing ~1 per entry, and occasionally all 20. 2secs to 0.2secs is quite a win - I wonder why it was so bad before; I had carefully compiled with qr// the regexps. Anyhow nice to achieve at least some hack no matter how small.
Call with Kelli, then sync with Guy. Clarity. Dinner. Mary Rogers came over to sort some fund-raising out with J. back to work for a bit.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2008-12-12: Friday.