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March2006Meeting
Anthony Johnson edited this page May 16, 2013
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Topic: The Guts of Perl (and why you should care)
Presenter: Eric Wilhelm
Briefly covering:
(roughly) What the perl interpreter does when you throw a program at it. How perlguts and compiled extensions work. How to peek into perl internals with Perl code. How this knowledge is useful.
Agenda:
- (requisite viewing of fluff / late arrivals)
- Overview of perl's parse, compile, run process.
- Possibly some mildly off-topic bits about XS, perlapi, etc.
- Tour of the B:: modules.
- (heckling)
- Comparisons between B and PPI approaches.
- (likely more heckling)
- Example code, case studies, and esoteric observations.
- (beer at the LuckyLab)
Applications:
- Mechanically analyzing readability and refactorability of Perl code.
- Design patterns and optimization insights.
- Better understanding of what is under the hood.
- An opportunity to heckle me (heckling-based learning optional.)