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On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Tom Hukins <tom@eborcom.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:53:27AM +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > > Very nearly *everything* they would want to do with bytes.pm > > would be a mistake. Using bytes.pm in application code (as > > opposed to guts hackery) is almost by definition a bug. > > perlfunc contains the following: > To get the length of the internal string in bytes, use > C<bytes::length(EXPR)>, see L<bytes>. > > What should it say instead? > > A recent discussion on PerlMonks shows that while C<< if (bytes::length($s)) >> is faster than C<< if (length($s)) >>, C<< eq "" >> is faster yet.Thread Previous | Thread Next