Perl's object system is famously flexible. bless a reference, add some accessors, and you're in business. Over the years, modules like Moose, Moo, and Mouse have built increasingly sophisticated layers on top of that foundation — giving us type…
So What Is A Binary Heap? A binary heap is really just an sorted array pretending to be a tree. Each element has a parent and children, but instead of pointers you find them with simple array indexes.…
Caching is one of those things every application needs eventually. Whether it's DNS lookups, database rows, or computed results, keeping frequently accessed data close avoids expensive recomputation.…
Adopting one from Zefram Back in 2011, Andrew Main, known to the Perl community as Zefram, released Devel::CallParser. It was a quiet piece of infrastructure: a C API that let XS modules attach custom argument parsers to Perl subroutines.…
