in reply to Re^3: hash interface
in thread hash interface

Your benchmarks support my point. But there are two subs missing - assignment of a passed hash reference to a scalar and to a hash:

use strict; use warnings; use Benchmark qw(cmpthese); for my $argCount (2, 10, 100) { my @args = (1 .. $argCount); print "\nFor $argCount elements:\n"; cmpthese (-1, { hashArg => sub { noCopy ({@args}) }, listArg => sub { noCopy ( @args) }, toList => sub { toList ( @args) }, toHash => sub { toHash ( @args) }, rtoHref => sub { rtoHref ({@args}) }, rtoHash => sub { rtoHash ({@args}) }, } ); } sub noCopy { } sub toList { my @args = @_ } sub toHash { my %hash = @_ } sub rtoHash { my %hash = %{$_[0]} } sub rtoHref { my ($hash) = @_ }

which yields

For 2 elements: Rate rtoHash rtoHref hashArg toList toHash listArg rtoHash 455110/s -- -35% -48% -49% -50% -82% rtoHref 695078/s 53% -- -21% -23% -24% -72% hashArg 877714/s 93% 26% -- -2% -4% -65% toList 899514/s 98% 29% 2% -- -2% -64% toHash 918729/s 102% 32% 5% 2% -- -63% listArg 2513115/s 452% 262% 186% 179% 174% -- For 10 elements: Rate rtoHash rtoHref toList toHash hashArg listArg rtoHash 166131/s -- -49% -51% -54% -54% -93% rtoHref 324588/s 95% -- -5% -10% -11% -86% toList 342024/s 106% 5% -- -5% -6% -85% toHash 360654/s 117% 11% 5% -- -1% -84% hashArg 364089/s 119% 12% 6% 1% -- -84% listArg 2271050/s 1267% 600% 564% 530% 524% -- For 100 elements: Rate rtoHash rtoHref hashArg toList toHash listArg rtoHash 18862/s -- -49% -54% -55% -55% -98% rtoHref 36885/s 96% -- -10% -13% -13% -96% hashArg 40959/s 117% 11% -- -3% -3% -96% toList 42164/s 124% 14% 3% -- -0% -96% toHash 42347/s 125% 15% 3% 0% -- -96% listArg 1037900/s 5403% 2714% 2434% 2362% 2351% --

which shows that constructing a hash reference from the argument list and actually using it is always slowest; passing a plain list is fastest.