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If all of the tests had the Data::Dumper code, it should not affect the outcome.

Indeed it will; if you want to measure IO for reading, don't add IO for writing. IO is too non-deterministic at this level to benchmark accurately and appropriately. (That's even without Benchmark's flaws.)

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Re^4: push, assign or split a file?
by gam3 (Curate) on Jan 18, 2010 at 11:53 UTC
    chromatic there was no output. The Data::Dumper output was just being put in a scalar.
    -- gam3
    A picture is worth a thousand words, but takes 200K.

      Good point; I missed that.