ah - i knew that perl stored things in a global table, i just wan't sure if any some or no 'optimization' of variable names took place, like in a compiled language

i like to use highly semantic naming conventions for my functions, and often vars -- so i often have 30-40 character names.

the current project i'm working on is getting quite large, and more functions mean more descriptive names, so i'm looking at pushing 50char names.

easily readble and understandable code is #1 for me, so i'm just glad that the tradeoff is almost non-existant in terms of memory use.

In reply to Re: Does the size of a variable's name affect memory? by nmerriweather
in thread Does the size of a variable's name affect memory? by nmerriweather

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