Re: opcode caching / speed-up app

[moritz]

The perlperf manual page has some advice.

In my opinion, the most important part is profile first, so that you know where the slow parts are. Devel::NYTProf is the best profiler I've ever used, and I can highly recommend it.

If your application is backed by a database, it might also worth investigating if indexes might be missing. Most database servers the capability to log slow queries, which you should use and act upon.

[rpike]

Thanks moritz. I tried NYTProf for the first time 2 days ago and it seemed pretty good. The 'database' is actually textfiles. There are 3-4 XML documents used within the application, XML::Simple opens and parses them. I appreciate the response.

[mbethke]

The 'database' is actually textfiles. There are 3-4 XML documents used within the application, XML::Simple opens and parses them. I appreciate the response.

So it sounds like you're running a CGI that gets compiled every time and also loads and parses its entire data set every time. That may well be the problem and something like SQlite could bring a big boost there. And/or, as others mentioned, FastCGI.