i think your benchmark is a little off, since it's comparing global scalars to a lexical hash. hopefully this one's more accurate (but i'm no expert.)

Update:

here, global vars win in speed, as you quoted. i did not test memory requirements. of course, i meant that lexicals win... what was i looking at when i typed that?

#!perl
use Benchmark;

my %l_hash;

sub use_global_hash { ++$hash{ 'foo' . $_ } for 0 .. 1000 }
sub use_global_vars { ++${ 'foo' . $_ } for 0 .. 1000 }
sub use_lexical_hash { ++$l_hash{ 'foo' . $_ } for 0 .. 1000 }

timethese -10, {
    use_global_hash => \&use_global_hash,
    use_global_vars => \&use_global_vars,
    use_lexical_hash => \&use_lexical_hash,
};
__END__
> t-b-symref.pl
Benchmark: running use_global_hash, use_global_vars, use_lexical_hash 
+for at least 10 CPU seconds...
use_global_hash: 11 wallclock secs (10.58 usr +  0.00 sys = 10.58 CPU)
+ @ 744.83/s (n=7884)
use_global_vars: 10 wallclock secs (10.54 usr +  0.02 sys = 10.56 CPU)
+ @ 561.35/s (n=5925)
use_lexical_hash: 11 wallclock secs (10.65 usr +  0.00 sys = 10.65 CPU
+) @ 794.74/s (n=8460)

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~Particle *accelerates*

In reply to Re: Symbolic refs aka. dynamic variables again by particle
in thread Symbolic refs aka. dynamic variables again by Jenda

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