in reply to Re^2: Various ways to concatenating an array of strings
in thread Various ways to concatenating an array of strings

According to your Benchmarks, join is taking 0.009 seconds to execute compared to pack's 0.007. Are you sure you need those extra 2 milliseconds?

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Re^4: Various ways to concatenating an array of strings
by hawtin (Prior) on Mar 30, 2006 at 20:03 UTC

    As I said the speed was not critical, the fact that some pathalogical cases join consumed so much virtual memory that the machine died was sufficiently "inconvinient" to make me seek an alternative (even an obscure one).