I'm starting to doubt if XS is really worth it.

Beside the hard to fix bugs, these modules are not that much faster.

In my benchmarks pure Perl5.10 approaches of any were in the range of 80%-50% of the speed of List::MoreUtils !

Interesting is 

                 Rate    PP_for LU_first  PP_grep   PP_map PP_mapdirec
+t  LMU_any
PP_for       323355/s        --      -4%      -9%     -16%         -18
+%     -47%
LU_first     335913/s        4%       --      -6%     -13%         -15
+%     -45%
PP_grep      356464/s       10%       6%       --      -8%         -10
+%     -42%
PP_map       387000/s       20%      15%       9%       --          -2
+%     -37%
PP_mapdirect 395959/s       22%      18%      11%       2%           -
+-     -35%
LMU_any      612649/s       89%      82%      72%      58%          55
+%       --

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Have to repeat the benchmark with more test cases...

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

In reply to Re^8: Smartmatch alternatives by LanX
in thread Smartmatch alternatives by cavac

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