Your benchmark is flawed. m5, m7 and m8 use a hash so that you can do part of the work only *once*. Setting up the hash each time you are doing tests defeats its purpose.

Of course, if all you are doing in your program is performing this test once, for the 8 entries in @tabs you shouldn't bother. Optimizing is only useful for hot spots in your code, things you either do many times, or things that are very costly. Trivial checks that will only be done 8 times in your code aren't worth to be optimized.

Abigail

In reply to Re: Re: Conditional idiom : "if X equals Y or Z" ?? - benchmark by Abigail-II
in thread Conditional idiom : "if X equals Y or Z" ?? by George_Sherston

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