...machine is about 20x quicker than mine :-)

The machine that ran on was a 1.4GHz Athlon, with IDE disks. Out of interest I ran it on one of the devel servers (Quad PIII Xeon 2GHz, RAID 5 SCSI really fast disks) Of course you only get to use one processor but there was a negligible performance difference. 


[root@devel3 root]# perl test.pl
Benchmark: timing 10000000 iterations of with, without...
      with:  9 wallclock secs ( 8.64 usr +  0.00 sys =  8.64 CPU) @ 11
+57407.41/s (n=10000000)
   without:  4 wallclock secs ( 4.05 usr +  0.00 sys =  4.05 CPU) @ 24
+69135.80/s (n=10000000)
             Rate    with without
with    1157407/s      --    -53%
without 2469136/s    113%      --

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What did you run it on out of interest?

On the Benchmark side the BEGIN case have identical (and much faster results) because Perl only executes them once and then effectively does a NOP on that code section. At least that is what I suspect....

cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: to strict or not to strict by tachyon
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