You have a benchmark showing very little cost for blessing objects, but the actual cost of a simple getter compared with a hash access may be the thing of concern. Well, probably it isn't. It certainly isn't the more than 144,000% hit others have suggested. The following benchmark result indicates at worst a factor of five cost between a getter and a hash access used in a simple assignment:

          Rate derived baseobj    hash
derived 1641/s      --     -0%    -79%
baseobj 1649/s      0%      --    -79%
hash    7876/s    380%    378%      --

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#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

package ClassBase;

sub new {
    my ($class, $hash) = @_;
    return bless $hash, $class;
}

sub getter {
    my ($self) = @_;
    return $self->{1};
}

package Derived;

use parent -norequire => 'ClassBase';

sub new {
    my ($class, $hash) = @_;
    return $class->SUPER::new ($hash);
}

package main;

use Benchmark qw(cmpthese);

my %hash = 1 .. 10;
my $baseobj  = ClassBase->new (\%hash);
my $derived  = Derived->new (\%hash);
my $dump;

cmpthese(-1,
    {
     baseobj => sub {$dump = $baseobj->getter() for 1 .. 1000},
     derived => sub {$dump = $derived->getter() for 1 .. 1000},
     hash => sub {$dump = $hash{1} for 1 .. 1000},
     }
);

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True laziness is hard work

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

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