My Re^3: Display shortened paragraph reply was intended to discuss the common use of benchmarks at PerlMonks and why a benchmark is a useful tool for illustrating why some coding decisions are made. I'm sorry I didn't make that sufficiently clear to you.

I agree that in the strict context of UI computational efficiency in most cases doesn't matter at all. However the real lesson from the benchmark is that specific purpose built in functions perform better than general purpose functions - and that knowledge can be applied all over.

To someone who has been kicking around the Perl world for a while and already knows everything there is to know about Perl of course the result of any benchmark comes as no surprise. That is not true for everyone here, and particuarly it it not true for many of the people who ask for help here and those who read through the replies looking for interesting knowledge. Well constructed benchmarks are a valuable resource here, and often the discussion pertaining to how to construct a particular benchmark is valuable too. This sort of, peripheral to the main question, discussion often provides the most useful insight and understanding.

Personally I think that those who know of (by far) more important/interesting aspects should contribute the results of their own research and knowledge.

But your post claims "and the best answer is: benchmark"

Yes, that did need a tongue in cheek smiley didn't it :-)

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re^5: Display shortened paragraph by GrandFather
in thread Display shortened paragraph by Anonymous Monk

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