I hope it's clear I wasn't being entirely serious or saying that my code was "better", it was just a lighthearted retort :-)

i would have to look up funny debug commands to tell for sure, but are $#$fields-1 and $fields->[-1] optimized or does the subtraction happen every loop

I'm not sure either, but I'd have to guess no, since the optimizer would have to know for certain that @fields won't change, and in a language as dynamic as Perl, that's probably very rarely the case, if ever. As for the debug command, I assume you're thinking of B::Deparse, invoked as perl -MO=Deparse script.pl, which would show, for example, constant folding.

I did a quick test with Benchmark and refactored out $fields->[-1] and $#$fields-1 to before the loop, and that gave a consistent but small speed increase of ~5% (although IIRC, in terms of Benchmark results that's still in the margin of error of being insignificant).

I didn't take missing fields into account because the OP was asking about objects, but you have a good point there, my code doesn't properly handle undef values (or an empty @$fields for that matter).

In reply to Re^4: SQL like query over iterable in perl by haukex
in thread SQL like query over iterable in perl by pwagyi

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