> But then, that makes me wonder why you are seeking an alternative to it?

I'm meditating more about orthogonal code than speed.

But you are really measuring strange things on your sytsem 

lanx@ubuntu:~$ perl -MTime::HiRes=time -e'my @a= 0..1e6;my $t= time;my
+ @bla=@a; tr/h//d for @bla;print time-$t; <>'
2.48298692703247
lanx@ubuntu:~$ perl -MTime::HiRes=time -e'my @a= 0..1e6;my $t= time;my
+ @bla= map{tr/h//d; $_} @{\@a};print time-$t; <>'
7.50910615921021
lanx@ubuntu:~$ perl -MTime::HiRes=time -e'my @a= 0..1e6;my $t= time;my
+ @bla= map{tr/h//d; $_}map{$_} @a;print time-$t; <>'
8.25657296180725

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Cheers Rolf

In reply to Re^4: non aliased default var $_ by LanX
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