in reply to package function calling

Not really. There's not enough info in your post but I assume the second version has some_func in the package's EXPORT array. The perfomance penalty is in the actual exporting not in the look-up.

Unless your EXPORT array is insanely huge, the perfomance cost would be down in the noise - I would worry more about namespace pollution and collision before execution time.

If you really care, just Benchmark the two approaches.

-derby