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• Table of Contents? (Score:1)

  by mdiep (5988)

  It'd be nice if there was a table of contents on the Perl Hacks page -- even a tentative one. The rough cuts version would be much more enticing if I knew exactly what was in the book. :-)
  • Benchmarks using this method? (Score:1)

    by Alias (5735)

    What sort of time penalty is this sort of technique going to introduce?
    
    function calls are already pretty expensive, but depending on how you are implementing this I imagine it could result in a lot more of them. Would this be correct?
    
    • Re:Benchmarks using this method? (Score:1)

      by chromatic (983) on 2006.04.13 10:56 (#47125) Homepage Journal

      You are correct. It's as fast as it can be without a source filter and without using XS (though I can already think of a way to make it faster with XS).

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