Stas Bekman and the mod_perl folks have looked into this before. You'll find a more general answer there.

Fellow monks, don't kill me, but I'm quite disappointed with your, let's say, 'evading' answers. While I do agree that for the most time speed considerations at this scope are irrelevant, there are situations (like a mod_perl CGI under rapid fire) where you need every bit of speed you can get. Also noone considered that the length of strings would probably have (quite some) impact on what's faster.

It might be but a loop or subroutine that's part of a (much) larger project, so "don't use perl if you need speed" is quite an ignorant advice. antichef asked us what's faster in Perl, he didn't ask whether Perl was fastest in the first place...

So long,
Flexx

In reply to Re: which is faster, interpolation or concatenation? by Flexx
in thread which is faster, interpolation or concatenation? by antichef

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