With List::Util::sum() running 100x faster than the best pure perl equivalent, why wouldn't you use it even if you don't need the speed

It's a good question. The only answer which springs to mind is that you want to avoid loading List::Util in the first place because:

• You're in a constrained environment and don't have the RAM to spare
• You are actually concerned about speed but it's faster to run a short script without loading List::Util if the arrays being summed are tiny
• You are in some environment where XS isn't feasible so you're stuck with the PP version (although this still isn't really a reason not to use it on its own)

They are all edge cases anyway. And of course if you are one of the 99% who do have enough RAM etc. to load List::Util you get all the other good stuff in that module other than sum() essentially for free.

In summary: yes, I'd use it everywhere unless there's a demonstrable penalty.

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