I believe it is/was wasteful because of the list that map builds to return to you. The normal use of map is like this: 
    my @returned = map BLOCK LIST;

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In order to fill up @returned, map has to build a list. If you're not going to be using that list (if you're using map in void context), you've wasted that storage and the processing time needed to allocate that memory.

However, I've read bits and pieces of this discussion in the past, and I had thought that this list-building was optimized away when map is used in a void context. Is this the case, or was that merely a suggestion? :)

In reply to RE: RE: RE: RE: My favorite looping mechanism in Perl is: by btrott
in thread My favorite looping mechanism in Perl is: by vroom

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