Re: Re^3: sprintf vs. substr (for zero-padded values)

Wow... ++tadman for discovering the flaw in my master plan, and for opening my eyes to how expensive calling a subroutine seems to be. Why is calling a sub so expensive?

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Re: sprintf vs. substr (for zero-padded values) by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jul 18, 2002 at 13:38 UTC
Why is calling a sub so expensive? You got to save state (and restore it when the sub returns). Furthermore, the lookup is done at runtime, not compiletime. After all, it's fine to have a call to a sub preceed the actual declaration - not to mention that AUTOLOAD would work if all was done at compile time. Abigail	[reply]