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in thread Optimizing the bejeezus out of a sub

As you say, you are generating a system call (plus memory copy from user to kernel space) for every iteration: that might be a small penalty, but incurs 130,000 times... doing it just once saves some bit work, hence the (small) performance increase.
OTOH, if your strings get extremely big you are probably going to lose this benefit, since buffering in your sub is likely to cause a lot of work for memory allocation.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Optimizing the bejeezus out of a sub
by sgifford (Prior) on Jun 25, 2003 at 16:50 UTC
    The print is buffered, so only generates a system call when the buffer is full. My template is small and the buffer size is larger than it, so I only have one system call for the entire template.
    #!/usr/bin/perl for(my $i=0;$i<4000;$i++) { print $i%10; }
    $ strace -c -e write /tmp/t20 >/tmp/out
    % time     seconds  usecs/call     calls    errors syscall
    ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
    100.00    0.000034          34         1           write
    ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
    100.00    0.000034                     1           total