'==' is alreadly overloaded for threads, therefore overload.pm is already loaded. As a result, adding ""-overloading doesn't cost anything extra.

As to performance, my tests show that overloading only costs a few percent. However, generating a 'default' string from an object (e.g. 'threads=SCALAR(0xABCDABCD)') is HUGELY expensive. Therefore, I found that for ops like "... $thr ..." and $hash{$thr} there is a greater than 500% speed improvement overall with ""-overloading.

However, while the performance increase is really nice, I like the usabily aspects more.

Remember: There's always one more bug.

In reply to Re^2: [RFC] Stringifying a thread by jdhedden
in thread [RFC] Stringifying a thread by jdhedden

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