Who cares which one is faster ?
Larry Wall, Merlyn, And Tom Christiansen who wrote it in the Camel book...
gregw who ask the question, all those who answered...

They don't do the same thing
But they often can achieve the same result.
And usually people use them without even noticing the difference...

But you may be right if you say that we should underline the difference rather than to focus on the speed.
Anyway knowing ALL the aspects of my and local (and speed is one of them) can only be a good thing IMHO.

UPDATE :
This was NOT supposed to be an attack toward Dominus...
But just a rather (goofed) attempt to say : This question (about the speed difference) is interesting even if it's not the most important one (the often ignored difference is more important to me)
The middle of my post, which seems to be the controversial point,
Is not saying my == local ! I just give my idea on why they are usually associated...

I JUST put in bold the important sentence in my post, no other modification was made...

In reply to Re: Re: is 'my' that much faster than 'local'? by zenmaster
in thread is 'my' that much faster than 'local'? by gregw

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