Well, yes, that's what I meant when I said "I assume you're referring to the runtime check for symbolic references, as that is the only run-time component for stricture?" ;-) Personally, I always forget about module loading times, because I do most of my Perl work with mod_perl, with all modules loaded at server startup time.

But I am pleasantly surprised by the low overhead of loading strict: being able to load strict more than 1 million times per second is nice. But on the other hand, it indicates to me that the OS has the file in RAM already and is serving it from there. So in that sense the benchmark is also flawed ;-).

Anyway, I think we've proven there is not a lot to be gained by not using strict from a performance point of view. And that there is a lot to be lost from a development / maintenance point of view (if you don't use strict).

Liz

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: to strict or not to strict by liz
in thread to strict or not to strict by castaway

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