Yup, sure does. (*sigh* busted ;-) But it turns out a combination is slightly better as well. The modifier form of the for loop doesn't have the marginal overhead of scope (er I think...), although I wonder if the 3% gain is worth the obfu.

I have to admit that I was suprised to discover that the list assignment is so much faster than an array lookup (which obviously is why yours is faster). Somthing I shall keep in mind for the future.

Heres my benchmarks... 

Benchmark: running demerphq, petral, petral_modifier, each for at leas
+t 60 CPU seconds...
  demerphq: 66 wallclock secs (62.98 usr +  0.00 sys = 62.98 CPU) @ 21
+2.26/s (n=13369)
    petral: 64 wallclock secs (62.99 usr +  0.00 sys = 62.99 CPU) @ 26
+7.17/s (n=16828)
petral_modifier: 64 wallclock secs (63.17 usr +  0.00 sys = 63.17 CPU)
+ @ 274.43/s (n=17336)
                 Rate        demerphq          petral petral_modifier
demerphq        212/s              --            -21%            -23%
petral          267/s             26%              --             -3%
petral_modifier 274/s             29%              3%              --

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In reply to Re: x 5 Array sort - kind of... (benchmark) by demerphq
in thread Array sort - kind of... by smitz

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