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• Caution Advised (Score:2)

  by Dom2 (2981) <{dom} {at} {happygiraffe.net}> on 2007.12.22 16:30 (#59645) Homepage Journal

  I'd be wary of using a void context in each of those benchmarks. Perl has been known to "optimise" these.

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  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Aristotle (5147)

    It seems to me that if void context was having an effect, the rates would be much higher than on the order of 5,000 iterations/sec. The benchmark could be more realistic, but it doesn’t seem fatally flawed as a mere rule of thumb measurement.
  • Caution waived (Score:1)

    by n1vux (1492)

    duplicating the tests with "say $NULL ( );" wrapped around formerly void context (going to /dev/null of course) and adding "use warnings;", I do see a "useless in void" warning for the first test, but the change in times with say instead of void context is minimal or nil.
    

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