I think you're misunderstanding. What you had before calculated $rx in the loop, and then had: 
...$tiles[$rx][$ry]...

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in the inner loop. Which looks up index $rx, gets an array reference, looks up index $ry, etc.

I moved calculating $rx out of the loop and the lookup on $rx out of the loop with: 

my $tiles_for_rx = ($tiles[$rx] ||= []);

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and then in the loop had: 
...$tiles_for_rx->[$ry]...

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which means that the lookup of index $rx doesn't happen in the inner loop any more.

If your inner loop executes 15 times for each iteration of the outer loop, you just lost 14 calculations of $rx, and 14 lookups on index $rx. Less work is generally faster.

In reply to Re^12: How to speed up a nested loop? by tilly
in thread How to speed up a nested loop? by Xenofur

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