> here, global vars win in speed, as you quoted.

I think you meant "global vars LOSE in speed". Using global dynamic variables you did only 561.35 increments a second, while with the global hash you did 744.83 and with a lexical hash 794.74 increments per second.

If you use timethese() with a negative first argument, the times per se are useless. You have to divide the number of iterations by the times to get anything meaningfull.

Anyway you are right I should have included the global hash in the benchmark as well.

Jenda
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