Object-oriented programs run slightly slower [....] If you can get away without using object orientation, you probably should.

What a horrible conclusion. An equivalent conclusion is "If it is possible to do something in C or C++, then you probably should just not do it in Perl."

What are usually rather trivial run-time performance differences should have nearly zero bearing on your choice of approach. Even if your OO experiment found that the OO code was consistently 20% slower than the non-OO code, that is unlikely to be a significant factor in evaluating whether or not to use OO for that case (are you even going to notice most of the time if your script takes 3 seconds to run instead of 3.6 seconds to run?).

Clearly it shouldn't be the single most important factor. That particular comment should be simply and easily dismissed.

- tye        

In reply to Re: When to Use Object Oriented approach in Perl? (gah) by tye
in thread When to Use Object Oriented approach in Perl? (RFC) by thanos1983

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