Hi Arien,

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.
Just to make sure: that advice wasn't given.

No hard feelings! Somehow I read it that way, but I understand that you didn't mean it that way. My bad.

Look, I gave a pointer to more information on the question being asked. antichef didn't state what's behind his question, so any assumtion on that is just that -- an assumtion. The only thing he has stated was that he did not worry about readability but for speed only, and he got several "don't/bad boy/shame on you" answers. I gave him a pointer to information he was asking for -- so what did I do wrong?

I didn't mean to object on any of the advice given, on the contrary, I agreed in principle.

Besides, one form could be rewritten to the other by the optimizer in another Perl version, so what's the point?

Fine. But what's the point in your objection? Right now, one way might indeed be faster than the other, and brother antichef was courious. I don't know what's wrong with that. Those who know me, know that I am on a crusade for good style and ethics myself, but it's still ok to be courious!

So long
Flexx

In reply to Re^3: which is faster, interpolation or concatenation? by Flexx
in thread which is faster, interpolation or concatenation? by antichef

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