>You see that, shift modifies the array (as i'm sure you already know). Thus, the benchmark is void.

Huh? Where is the problem? You can modify test internal data as much as you want, as long as it is initialized the same way for each test. It is no problem to modify @_ here. There would be a problem if he would directly modify the global @args. Which he doesn't do. Or are you trying to indicate that

    my @arr = ('a', 'b', 'c');
    sub dosth {
        my $first = shift;
    }

    dosth(@arr);
    print "@arr";

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results in "a b"? Of course not, right?

In reply to Re: Re: benchmark for shift vs list assignment for object methods by crenz
in thread benchmark for shift vs list assignment for object methods by d_i_r_t_y

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