This does the same thing as your Clone method but takes 1/3rd the time (for 10x10 matrices), just by not doing the completely redundant second map:

sub Clone2 { my $self = shift @_; my $matrix = $self->Matrix; return Matrix->new( "Matrix" => [ map{ [ @$_ ] } @$matrix ] ); }

If your matrices are very small (3x5 or 4x4 or less), then it might be worth breaking some OO taboos to gain a little more. This also does the same thing, but avoids a couple of method calls per invocation:

sub Clone3{ my $self = shift; bless { "Matrix" => [ map{ [ @$_ ] } @{ $self->{Matrix} } ] }, 'Matrix'; }

But in the end, if a call that takes 3 milliseconds (your original for a 100x100 matrix) takes 80% of your time, then you should really start questioning why it is necessary to Clone something 35 million times? It seems to me that using a better algorithm is likely to produce far greater savings.


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In reply to Re: Performance problem with Clone Method by BrowserUk
in thread Performance problem with Clone Method by Commandosupremo

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