Not sure if I was able to help you, this area of implementation details is a moving target.
And the margins you benchmarked do not really justify any micro-optimisations here, because different Perl versions can behave differently.
Personally I'd rather prefer for to alter an array via alias, such side-effects in map might confuse other readers (a map in void context used to be a matter of warning)
In reply to Re^5: map vs for\foreach.
by LanX
in thread map vs for\foreach.
by builat
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