Why make another copy of the array with
@{[ ... ]}? I would rather do this instead -
$n = scalar( split ',', $str );
print "$n\n";
Ok, lets give it a test -
use strict;
use Benchmark qw/timethese cmpthese/;
my $str = join ',',map{('a'..'z')[rand 26] x (1 + rand 5)}0..1000;
cmpthese( timethese(10000, {
'split_anonymous' => '&split_anonymous',
'split_simple' => '&split_simple',
}) );
sub split_anonymous
{
my $n = @{[split ',', $str]};
#print "$n\n";
}
sub split_simple
{
my $n = scalar split ',', $str;
#print "$n\n";
}
And the comparison -
Benchmark: timing 10000 iterations of split_anonymous, split_simple...
split_anonymous: 19 wallclock secs (19.05 CPU) @ 525.02/s (n=10000)
split_simple: 16 wallclock secs (15.77 CPU) @ 634.32/s (n=10000)
Rate split_anonymous split_simple
split_anonymous 525/s -- -17%
split_simple 634/s 21% --
The benchmark result show that a simple split without making an anonymous copy is 20% faster.
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