Well you asked for non alphanumeric method names but only showed benchmarks and code for normal method names.

It's hard to tell what you really need.

2 ideas

1. You didn't try the option $obj->$c_method with $c_method being a code ref. ( that's what can() returns ) ... this should be fastest after a caching phase along with direct.

2. If your method names are automatically generated try to convert non identifier into some kind of translation.

Have a look at control characters like ^c and so on.

Perl allows them for variables, maybe for method names too?

Cheers Rolf
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In reply to Re: Optimizing non-alphanumeric method calls by LanX
in thread Optimizing non-alphanumeric method calls by trizen

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