Class::Accessor is a great way to automate the tedious task of generating accessors and mutators. One small drawback is that due to the details of the implementation, you only get one __ANON__ entry in profiling output. That entry contains all your accessors, which can be a real pain if you're attempting to figure out which of your accessors is being called six billion times. This module is a development aid which uses Hook::LexWrap and Sub::Name to talk your accessors into identifying themselves. While it shouldn't add much additional runtime overhead (as it acts only Class::Accessor's generator functions), it has not been designed for production deployment. WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Class-Accessor-Named/