NAME

perl_profile.pl - profile a perl program.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: perl_profile.pl
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.03

SYNOPSIS

        perl_profile.pl

DESCRIPTION

This is a wrapper which will run a profiler for Perl for you. It's better to use this wrapper for taking care of the weirdness of running the profile (weird command line) and the weirdness of analyzing the results.

OPTIONS

help (type: bool, default: 0)

display help message

pod (type: bool, default: 0)

display pod options snipplet

man (type: bool, default: 0)

display manual page

quit (type: bool, default: 0)

quit without doing anything

gtk (type: bool, default: 0)

run a gtk ui to get the parameters

license (type: bool, default: 0)

show license and exit

copyright (type: bool, default: 0)

show copyright and exit

description (type: bool, default: 0)

show description and exit

history (type: bool, default: 0)

show history and exit

minimum of [1] free arguments required no maximum limit on number of free arguments placed

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV put all tests in modules
        0.01 MV move tests to modules
        0.02 MV teachers project
        0.03 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Meta::Lang::Perl::Perl(3), Meta::Utils::Opts::Opts(3), Meta::Utils::System(3), strict(3)

TODO

-add ability to pass options to the script that is profiled. (I accept arguments but do not pass them).