/me mutters something along the lines of "Why didn't I think of that?" :)
Anyhow, I went as far as 2000x2000 and got the following results:
return hash takes: 32 secs
return hash REF takes: 11 secs
This demonstrates that hash REFs do indeed run much faster. I suppose that returning a regular hash requires that the interpreter copy the data structure... likely doubling the memory required to keep the data structure memorized.
Thanks a lot, I do believe I have got an answer to my "problem".
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