in reply to Ampersands and sub speed

Of course, where this really matters is doing something not doing nothing and there, of course, the delta is less significant. (Though still greater than zero.)

package Foo; sub do_something { my $i; $i++ for (1 .. 10) } package main; use strict; use warnings; use Benchmark qw( cmpthese ); my $foo = bless {}, 'Foo'; sub do_something { my $i; $i++ for (1 .. 10) } cmpthese( -1, { k1 => sub { $foo->do_something }, k2 => sub { Foo->do_something }, k3 => sub { Foo::do_something }, k4 => sub { do_something }, k5 => sub { &do_something }, });
Rate k2 k1 k4 k3 k5 k2 359975/s -- -3% -6% -7% -8% k1 369628/s 3% -- -3% -5% -6% k4 382293/s 6% 3% -- -2% -3% k3 388120/s 8% 5% 2% -- -1% k5 392991/s 9% 6% 3% 1% --

-xdg

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