So, whilst I am quite happy with the technique I outlined from the use and implementation point of view, I am a little concerned that the first variation my consume more "glob space" than is necessary, and if the second variation would save any substantial amount of memory and/ or prevent or reduce any performance hit that (may or may not) result from the first, then I would accept the slightly more verbose syntax of the second over the first.

I dont think that you need to worry about this. Certainly not as long as you are in the hundreds and not hundreds of thousands. Incidentally worrying about this smells like premature optimization to me... :-) Are there actually symptoms of a problem or are you just considering best practice?

A last point regarding AUTOLOAD, you may find the biggest drawback of this approach is speed. I have heard it said that AUTOLOADING a sub spoils the method cache (I dont know if thats only for one package or for all or what,) so if speed is an issue you might look at that.


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demerphq

<Elian> And I do take a kind of perverse pleasure in having an OO assembly language...

In reply to Re: Re: Re: The costs of packages by demerphq
in thread The costs of packages by BrowserUk

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