While running around the monastery, I ran into this discussion. Gee willy, a fan-dangled perl auto-obfuscator eh? Hope whatever you obfuscate is running on a mighty powerful server. Have you tried benchmarking any of the code that is created by this thing?
#!/usr/bin/perl
=head1 SYNOPSYS
A small program that does trivial things.
=cut
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Well, let's see how fast these little puppies run.
Woah! norm is some blazing code. wtf seems to be...uh...wtf!?!?! 48.91/s to execute what was 4 lines of code. Can't wait to try this on those 500kb scripts and modules that you were talking about.
Me: So let me get this straight. Anyone who will ever want to read my code again, including myself, will have to spend an eternity trying to break this down. And my spanking fast code will become so slow that I can watch the opcodes go by. How much could such a little gem possibly cost?