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• Under cyanogenmod settings go to performance settings
  • turn on JIT (Just in time compiler for the Dalvik VM)
  • uncheck enable surface dithering
  • Check Lock home in memory
• Finally replace the default ADW Launcher with LauncherPro

This last step, replacing the home launcher with Launcher Pro is what really did it for me. Hope someone finds this useful.

My main argument for method signatures is it reduces bugs and it documents your code without having to write documentation.  Its declarative, it does what it says and says what it does.  Plain and simple no guessing.  As most Perl programmers are aware Devel::Declare is a module that has added the ability to extend Perl 5 the language without source filters.  There are several really cool modules that have been developed on top of Devel::Declare.  MooseX::Declare and MooseX::Method::Signatures and Method::Signatures in particular.  The first MooseX::Method::Signatures, comes bundled as part of MooseX::Declare.   MooseX::Declare adds  declarative class and method keywords on top of Moose.  MooseX::Method::Signatures has it’s own type system and does optional run time type checking on arguments much like you would do with Params::Validate except with a declarative syntax.  It’s down right beautiful and makes you warm and fuzzy inside to use it, the down side is there is a huge performance penalty to use MooseX::Method::Signatures at run time.  Depending on what you are doing it might not matter much.

The module Method::Signatures gives you 95% of the sugar and 100 x performance over MooseX::Method::Signatures.  Type checking at run time is something that I usually don’t need (This is still Perl, I swear).  Positional and named parameters are both supported along with defaults and constraints.  On my latest project I’ve been using Moose along with Method::Signatures and I couldn’t be any happier.  Take a look at the performance benchmarks I’ve included comparing these two modules along with regular ‘sub’ methods.

MooseX::Declare bench code

use MooseX::Declare;
 
class Foo {
  has x => (
    is  => 'rw',
    isa => 'Str',
  );
 
  has y => (
    is => 'ro',
    isa => 'Str',
  );
 
  # I use the three vars below to ensure that the subs
  # are not constant-folded away.  Although I'm not sure perl will do that.
  our $meth_counter                 = 0;
  our $meth_without_args_counter    = 0;
  our $meth_typed_counter           = 0;
  our $regular_sub_counter          = 0;
 
  method method_with_type( Int $x ) {
    $meth_typed_counter++;
    $self->x . $x
  };
 
  method method_without_type($x) {
    $meth_counter++;
    $self->x . $x
  };
 
  method method_without_args() {
    $meth_without_args_counter++;
    $self->x;
  };
 
  sub regular_sub {
    my ( $self, $x ) = @_;
    $regular_sub_counter++;
    $self->x . $x;
  }
 
};
 
package main;
use Benchmark qw(:all);
 
my $foo = Foo->new( { x => "3", y => "45" } );
 
cmpthese(
  300000,
  {
    method_with_type    => sub { $foo->method_with_type(5) },
    method_without_type => sub { $foo->method_without_type(5) },
    method_without_args => sub { $foo->method_without_args() },
    regular_sub         => sub { $foo->regular_sub(5) },
  }
);

MooseX::Declare Results

aaron@ ~/method_signature_bench $ perl MooseXTest.pl
                        Rate method_without_type method_with_type method_without_args regular_sub
method_without_type   5320/s                  --              -9%                -12%        -99%
method_with_type      5865/s                 10%               --                 -2%        -99%
method_without_args   6014/s                 13%               3%                  --        -99%
regular_sub         612245/s              11408%           10339%              10080%          --

Method::Signatures

package Foo;
 
use Method::Signatures;
use Moose;
 
has x => (
 is  => 'rw',
 isa => 'Str',
);
 
has y => (
 is => 'ro',
 isa => 'Str',
);
 
our $meth_counter                       = 0;
our $meth_without_args_counter          = 0;
our $meth_typed_counter                 = 0;
our $regular_sub_counter                = 0;
our $regular_sub_without_args_counter   = 0;
 
method method_without_type($x) {
 $meth_counter++;
 $self->x . $x
}
 
method method_without_args() {
 $meth_without_args_counter++;
 $self->x . '5';
}
 
sub regular_sub {
 my ( $self, $x ) = @_;
 $regular_sub_counter++;
 $self->x . $x;
}
 
sub regular_sub_without_args {
 my ( $self ) = @_;
 $regular_sub_without_args_counter++;
 $self->x . '5';
}
 
package main;
 
use Benchmark qw(:all);
 
my $foo = Foo->new( { x => "3", y => "45" } );
 
cmpthese(
 300000,
 {
 method_without_type         => sub { $foo->method_without_type(5) },
 method_without_args         => sub { $foo->method_without_args() },
 regular_sub_without_args    => sub { $foo->regular_sub_without_args() },
 regular_sub                 => sub { $foo->regular_sub(5) },
 }
);
 
1;

Method::Signatures Results

aaron@ ~/method_signature_bench $ perl MethodSignature.pl
 Rate regular_sub method_without_type regular_sub_without_args method_without_args
regular_sub              579710/s          --                 -7%                     -17%                -25%
method_without_type      625000/s          8%                  --                     -11%                -19%
regular_sub_without_args 701754/s         21%                 12%                       --                 -9%
method_without_args      769231/s         33%                 23%                      10%                  --

Analysis

These tests are not exhaustive nor do they need to be.  Its clear that even with no arguments subs and Method::Signatures are on order of 100 times faster than MooseX::Method::Signatures.  What really surprised me here is that Method::Signatures looks to be faster than subs.  It would be an interesting test to benchmark the number and types of arguments.

Bottom line is I will use Method::Signatures and Moose in any new projects I write in Perl.  I’ve been successfully running production code with Method::Signatures since September with no problems.  Hoping to get some feed back on how Method::Signatures could possibly be faster than subs.

Note

• Benchmarks run on a Mac Book Pro with a 2.4ghz core i5 processor and 4b of ram
• Modules tested
  • Method::Signatures version: 20100730
  • MooseX::Method::Signatures version: 0.36
  • MooseX::Declare version: 0.34