Re: Dreaming in Perl

To answer your question, the first and third will probably be about the same speed. The second will be significantly slower (lots of memory), and the fourth will be obscenly complicated. If it's much slower or about the same (or even faster!) depends mostly on how (explicitly) parallel your brain is.

theorbtwo can't sleep either, but wasn't dreaming of code... as far as he remembers.

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Re^2: Dreaming in Perl by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Dec 02, 2002 at 23:41 UTC
I'm too lazy to benchmark, but since I know `for(;;)` is implemented in terms of `while(){} continue{}` and am fairly certain the list for the `foreach` is generated lazily in Perl5 (and thus juggling memory is not an issue), I'll hazard a guess that #3 should be the be the fastest of the lot. FWIW, I don't remember ever dreaming of code. Then again, I rarely ever remember anything but the worst of anxiety ridden dreams, so I may well have. Who knows? Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]

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Re^2: Dreaming in Perl
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Dec 02, 2002 at 23:41 UTC

I'm too lazy to benchmark, but since I know for(;;) is implemented in terms of while(){} continue{} and am fairly certain the list for the foreach is generated lazily in Perl5 (and thus juggling memory is not an issue), I'll hazard a guess that #3 should be the be the fastest of the lot.

FWIW, I don't remember ever dreaming of code. Then again, I rarely ever remember anything but the worst of anxiety ridden dreams, so I may well have. Who knows?

Makeshifts last the longest.

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