Re^7: declaring lexical variables in shortest scope: performance?

alias
A nickname for something, which behaves in all ways as though you’d used the original name instead of the nickname. Temporary aliases are implicitly created in the loop variable for foreach loops, in the $_ variable for map or grep operators, in $a and $b during sort’s comparison function, and in each element of @_ for the actual arguments of a subroutine call. Permanent aliases are explicitly created in packages by importing symbols or by assignment to typeglobs. Lexically scoped aliases for package variables are explicitly created by the our declaration.

just search and you'll find many discussions in the archive regarding the complicated mechanisms involved here, including the divide between package and private vars, closure inside the loop, etc ...

Cheers Rolf
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Re^8: declaring lexical variables in shortest scope: performance? by bliako (Abbot) on Mar 31, 2020 at 12:41 UTC
got it, thanks. `use Benchmark 'cmpthese'; cmpthese(-2, { predecl => ' my $y; my $x; for $x (1..10000) { $y+=$x } ', lexical => ' my $y; for my $x (1..10000) { $y+=$x } ', aliased => ' my $y; for (1..10000) { $y+=$_ } ', });` [download] Seems you are right! `Rate aliased lexical predecl aliased 3733/s -- -3% -5% lexical 3858/s 3% -- -2% predecl 3938/s 5% 2% --` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^9: declaring lexical variables in shortest scope: performance? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Mar 31, 2020 at 16:17 UTC
FWIW, I get what you get now and then and this or between just about as often– `Rate predecl aliased lexical predecl 3106/s -- -0% -0% aliased 3121/s 0% -- 0% lexical 3121/s 0% 0% -- # This is perl 5, version 18, subversion 4 (v5.18.4) # built for darwin-thread-multi-2level` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^9: declaring lexical variables in shortest scope: performance? by LanX (Saint) on Mar 31, 2020 at 14:33 UTC
> Seems you are right! Honestly, I don't know if these benchmarks proof much. Just to give you an idea how complicated things can become, see Re^2: unexpected modify hash in a distance with grep { $_ } (inconsistent behaviour of aliasing) ff. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]