Can you tell me where PERL_BITFIELD16 is typedef'd on your setup

For me, it's in lib/CORE/perl.h: 
/* macros to define bit-fields in structs. */
#ifndef PERL_BITFIELD8
#  define PERL_BITFIELD8 unsigned
#endif
#ifndef PERL_BITFIELD16
#  define PERL_BITFIELD16 unsigned
#endif
#ifndef PERL_BITFIELD32
#  define PERL_BITFIELD32 unsigned
#endif

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As for the timings, I've done such comparisons before on other machines and other operating systems - eg on my aging linux box (Pentium-III) running the same script (but with 10 iterations instead of 1) I get 0.42 for 'list' and '0.49' for 'ref'. Whenever I've run this sort of comparison, I've found very little difference. Given that you're measuring such miniscule amounts of time, it might be more meaningful if you were to run (say) 30 iterations instead of 1 - ie: 
timethese (30, {
'list' => '$list = sum_as_list(@x);',
'ref'  => '$ref  = sum_as_ref(\@x);',
});

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I don't know why this AMD64 (Vista64) timing is so slow in comparison to your box and my aging linux box .... didn't realise it *was* so slow until now....

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^6: profiling XS routines by syphilis
in thread profiling XS routines by jpl

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