[perl #114576] check if %hash 500x times slower than if keys %hash

On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 18:51:42 GMT, demerphq wrote:
> On 21 June 2016 at 16:44, Sawyer X <xsawyerx@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 06/20/2016 08:14 PM, Lukas Mai wrote:
> >> Am 17.06.2016 um 22:17 schrieb demerphq:
> >>> On 17 June 2016 at 22:15, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> If you mean changing the signature of scalar(%hash). IMO yes, we
> >>>> should, and if there is support for doing so the
> >>>
> >>> then yes I am interested in implementing this for 5.25.x.
> >>
> >> I'd like that.
> >
> > If we're voting, I'll throw a +1 on that too. :)
> 
> I just pushed a branch that contains code to do this as: smoke-
> me/no_xhv_fill
> 
> The patch relevant to this thread is
> 
> commit 28ecb9747cbb8efad36d9f022e2ef47ba54c6e14
> Author: Yves Orton <demerphq@gmail.com>
> Date:   Mon Jun 20 22:51:38 2016 +0200
> 
> Change scalar(%hash) to be the same as 0+keys(%hash)
> 
> I am going to start a new thread to discuss this.
> 
> Yves

This ticket was originally filed back in 2012 and was a complaint about performance.  Have we addressed the original poster's concerns?  Is the ticket closeable?

Thank you very much.

-- 
James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org)

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• [perl #114576] check if %hash 500x times slower than if keys %hash by James E Keenan via RT
• Re: [perl #114576] check if %hash 500x times slower than if keys%hash by Dave Mitchell