NAME

       Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Immutable - Making Moose fast by making your class immutable

VERSION

       version 2.1005

SYNOPSIS

         package Point;
         use Moose;

         has 'x' => ( isa => 'Int', is => 'ro' );
         has 'y' => ( isa => 'Int', is => 'rw' );

         __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable;

DESCRIPTION

       The Moose metaclass API provides a "make_immutable()" method. Calling this method does two
       things to your class. First, it makes it faster. In particular, object construction and
       destruction are effectively "inlined" in your class, and no longer invoke the meta API.

       Second, you can no longer make changes via the metaclass API, such as adding attributes.
       In practice, this won't be a problem, as you rarely need to do this after first loading
       the class.

CONCLUSION

       We strongly recommend you make your classes immutable. It makes your code much faster,
       with a small compile-time cost. This will be especially noticeable when creating many
       objects.

AUTHOR

       Moose is maintained by the Moose Cabal, along with the help of many contributors. See
       "CABAL" in Moose and "CONTRIBUTORS" in Moose for details.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Infinity Interactive, Inc..

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       the Perl 5 programming language system itself.