Hello,

I am currently learning Perl by using it in my dissertation (best way to learn it I find!) and at one point I ended up writing code that meant I was creating hundreds and thousands of objects. I am still unsure if it was completely due to the amount of object creation, but my tool ended up taking about half a day to run as opposed to the 30 seconds it took when I switched to using simple hashes for each "object".

How time-efficient is the "bless" function and everything that comes with it? And does calling a method for example $car->tyres take longer than the alternative $car->{tyres}? In the same vein, is it ever worth creating simple objects when all I'm really doing is simply adding methods to access and set its "fields"?

Thanks for your help,

Matt

In reply to Time efficiency of object creation in Perl (or the "bless" function) by kikumbob

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