Re (tilly) 1: Speeding-up OO accessor methods

You improve it by using a hash and if one day you want it to be something else then you will just tie the hash to an OO implementation.

To tie it all you need to do is provide a class with the OO interface Perl is looking for, then call tie on the data structure you wish to tie.

Note that the correct documentation is in perldoc perltie - and this is one area where Perl has improved significantly over releases so looking at your local documentation Really Matters On This One.

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RE: Re (tilly) 1: Speeding-up OO accessor methods by mirod (Canon) on Sep 19, 2000 at 01:20 UTC
I admit I haven'd done any benchmarking here, but aren't `tie`-ed variables slower than a simple hash access? The whole point of this hack is to get some speed.</pp>	[reply]
RE (tilly) 3: Speeding-up OO accessor methods by tilly (Archbishop) on Sep 19, 2000 at 01:34 UTC
The whole point of this hack as I see it is to write a ton of code so in the long run you could switch the implementation from hash access (fast) to something slower but more flexible. Being prepared to move to a tied interface later gives you that flexibility without any loss in speed or extra coding and development effort up front. Downstream that extra time will likely matter more anyways.	[reply]