I didn't know that! Is the logic behind replacing the sub with a string expression, to fool the cache?

use Benchmark 'cmpthese';

cmpthese(-2, {
    predecl => '
        my $y;
        my $x;
        for $x (1..10000) { $y+=$x }
    ',
    lexical => '
        my $y;
        for my $x (1..10000) { $y+=$x }
    ',
});

__END__

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          Rate lexical predecl
lexical 3996/s      --     -0%
predecl 4001/s      0%      --

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vs

use Benchmark 'cmpthese';

cmpthese(-2, {
    predecl => sub {
        my $y;
        my $x;
        for $x (1..10000) { $y+=$x }
    },
    lexical => sub {
        my $y;
        for my $x (1..10000) { $y+=$x }
    },
});

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          Rate predecl lexical
predecl 4011/s      --     -0%
lexical 4015/s      0%      --

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Which is more or less what haukex and choroba demonstrated.

In reply to Re^3: declaring lexical variables in shortest scope: performance? by bliako
in thread declaring lexical variables in shortest scope: performance? by bliako

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