Installing: 1. verify that you have the prerequisites installed + perl perl is required for both this module and the perl program you wish to profile. the software has been tested with 5.6.1 and should work with anything more recent, and maybe less recent, as well. Find perl at www.perl.org + Time::HiRes is required in order to perform timing calculations. it ships with recent versions of perl, or can be downloaded from CPAN 2. unbundle the tarball 3. run 'perl Makefile.PL' 4. run 'make' 5. run 'make install' 6. run 'perldoc Devel::Profile' 7. you are finished, sing a happy song, or, optionally, send in a bug report