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

Hm.

  1. constrained environment: I guess 600k might make a difference somewhere.

    Hard to see where though. Most phones have 4GB and even the original Raspberry Pi had 512MB.

  2. "faster ... without loading List::Util: Given WithListUtil.pl: 
    #! perl -sl
use List::Util qw[ sum ];

our $N //= 10;

print sum( 1 .. $N );

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    And WithoutListUtil.pl:

    #! perl -sl
#use List::Util qw[ sum ];

our $N //= 10;

my $t = 0;
$t += $_ for 1 .. $N;
print $t;

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    Darned if I can find any significant difference for as few as 3 numbers to add. Pretty consistently 4-5/100ths for both to start perl, count the numbers and return to the prompt:

    [16:27:32.60] C:\test>for /l %i in (1,1,10) do WithListUtil.pl -N=3
[16:27:55.68] C:\test>WithListUtil.pl -N=3
[16:27:55.73] C:\test>WithListUtil.pl -N=3
[16:27:55.79] C:\test>WithListUtil.pl -N=3
[16:27:55.85] C:\test>WithListUtil.pl -N=3
[16:27:55.90] C:\test>WithListUtil.pl -N=3
[16:27:55.95] C:\test>WithListUtil.pl -N=3
[16:27:56.00] C:\test>WithListUtil.pl -N=3
[16:27:56.05] C:\test>WithListUtil.pl -N=3
[16:27:56.10] C:\test>WithListUtil.pl -N=3
[16:27:56.15] C:\test>WithListUtil.pl -N=3

[16:27:56.20] C:\test>for /l %i in (1,1,10) do WithoutListUtil.pl -N=3
[16:28:22.44] C:\test>WithoutListUtil.pl -N=3
[16:28:22.49] C:\test>WithoutListUtil.pl -N=3
[16:28:22.54] C:\test>WithoutListUtil.pl -N=3
[16:28:22.59] C:\test>WithoutListUtil.pl -N=3
[16:28:22.63] C:\test>WithoutListUtil.pl -N=3
[16:28:22.67] C:\test>WithoutListUtil.pl -N=3
[16:28:22.71] C:\test>WithoutListUtil.pl -N=3
[16:28:22.76] C:\test>WithoutListUtil.pl -N=3
[16:28:22.80] C:\test>WithoutListUtil.pl -N=3
[16:28:22.84] C:\test>WithoutListUtil.pl -N=3
[16:28:22.88] C:\test>

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    It's hard to see the loading time of List::Util being a significant factor in any real code.

  3. XS isn't feasible so you're stuck with the PP version:

    I thought it came with the core for most distributions. I 'spose someone somewhere might be running a bastardized, cut-down version.

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In reply to Re^4: Best way to sum an array? by BrowserUk
in thread Best way to sum an array? by Anonymous Monk

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