in reply to quick question on modules

Normally no!

Use means that a module-function import() is called at BEGIN-time.

Normally this function is inherited by Exporter module and does only an aliasing of imported functions.

And aliasing costs only some bytes, not enough to be discussed.

But a module author can chose to define his own import and do whatever he wants... so no general answer here.

Cheers Rolf

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Re^2: quick question on modules
by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 01, 2013 at 09:47 UTC

    A great counterexample is POSIX:

    Q:\>perl -MPOSIX -wle "print for grep {$_ =~ /$$/} `tasklist`"
perl.exe                    5508 Console                 0      3.936 
+K


Q:\>perl -MPOSIX=strftime -wle "print for grep {$_ =~ /$$/} `tasklist`
+"
perl.exe                    4904 Console                 0      3.672 
+K

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    POSIX.pm exports all its functions and constants by default, which costs 300K memory, while importing just the few needed functions reduces the amount of memory spent.

    tl; dr - just like you said, no general answer here.

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