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Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:58:00AM -0400, John Porter wrote: > > You can, with C< goto &$foo; >. > > Problem is, it's *slower* (in p5 anyway) than the plain sub call. > > By only 10%. Let's keep things in proportion here. O.k., thank you for supplying the proportion. But it's still a bad proportion. goto &$foo should be *faster*. And I mean this as a -language person, not as an -internals person. Tail recursion elimination -- even if it must be explicit, as in perl5 -- should be faster than a recursive call. -- John Porter A word spoken in the mind will reach its own level in the objective truth.Thread Previous | Thread Next