The Moment of Truth

        Before                  After

        real    0m26.957s       real    0m27.117s
        user    0m24.180s       user    0m22.020s
        sys     0m0.550s        sys     0m0.480s 

• Not bad for one change (about 9%)

• The outputs are identical

  • Before:

     %Time ExclSec CumulS #Calls sec/call Csec/c  Name
      22.9   4.507 14.205   1440   0.0031 0.0099  Pod::Parser::parse_text

• After:

      19.4   3.515 12.303   1440   0.0024 0.0085  Pod::Parser::parse_text