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From:
Michael G Schwern
Date:
November 20, 2001 11:10
Subject:
Re: Feel good benchmarks
Message ID:
20011120140831.W11883@blackrider
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:22:36PM +0000, Ian Phillipps wrote:
> Defining the local parameter is doing a lot of damage. Some can be saved
> by using $_[0] rather than "shift":
> ... but that's not the point, is it?
The benchmark wouldn't be fair if we did that. Can't compare
unreadably optimized Perl code vs readable Ruby & Python code.
They get named argument parameters cheaply, Perl doesn't. It hurts,
but ya gotta accept it.
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Michael G. Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
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