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in thread Learning perlisms leads to experience, wisdom and discoveries that whitespace & idioms are lazy

By the way, do you know why the hash slice method is faster than looping? I measured and looks like it really is and by a significant amount of up to 25%. Seems strange.
--kap
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Re^3: Learning perlisms leads to experience, wisdom and discoveries that whitespace & idioms are lazy
by kelan (Deacon) on Dec 23, 2004 at 14:57 UTC

    Hash slicing does the assignment loop in C; explicitly looping does it in Perl.