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On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> wrote: > Quoth fawaka@gmail.com (Leon Timmermans): > Most of those forms of magic don't have meaningful side-effects, though, > at least on mg_get. (That is, they may have side-effects, but it doesn't > matter if they aren't invoked. Tainting is the obvious exception.) This > is what really matters from the pov of optimisation. > If you're only ignoring get magic and not set magic, I guess it's possible if you special-case special variables with get magic such as $!. @_ elements should probably also be exempt or else passing a tied argument will break very confusingly. I'm not entirely sure what the consequences of ignoring substr, pos and $#array and autovivication get magic. I suspect they'll work in the common case, but will break in corner cases. LeonThread Previous | Thread Next