in reply to Re^3: Pass an array reference or array indices to a subroutine?
in thread Pass an array reference or array indices to a subroutine?

They're about the same; almost irrelevant in any real program.

I propose that they're exactly the same.

$ perl -MO=Concise,-exec -e'$$ref' 1 <0> enter 2 <;> nextstate(main 1 -e:1) v:{ 3 <$> gvsv(*ref) s 4 <1> rv2sv vK/1 5 <@> leave[1 ref] vKP/REFC -e syntax OK $ perl -MO=Concise,-exec -e'@$ref' 1 <0> enter 2 <;> nextstate(main 1 -e:1) v:{ 3 <$> gvsv(*ref) s 4 <1> rv2av[t1] vK/1 5 <@> leave[1 ref] vKP/REFC -e syntax OK

The normal case of rv2sv boils down to a couple of checks plus

sv = SvRV(sv);

The normal case of rv2av boils down to a couple of checks plus

sv = SvRV(sv);

So any difference in performance is not intrinsic to the operation.