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Re: Scoping of my with foreach loop

by cog (Parson)

on Mar 07, 2005 at 19:50 UTC ( [id://437298]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Also, the first version tends to be faster, because the second one has to declare a new variable for each element of @array (unless this has been optimized by now).

Benchmark it with a big array.

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Re^2: Scoping of my with foreach loop
by holli (Abbot) on Mar 07, 2005 at 20:34 UTC

use Benchmark;

my @array = (1..999999);

timethis (200, sub { my $foo; for $foo ( @array ) { 1; } });
timethis (200, sub { for my $foo       ( @array ) { 1; } });

#timethis 200: 33 wallclock secs (31.58 usr +  0.02 sys = 31.60 CPU) @
+  6.33/s (n=200)
#timethis 200: 32 wallclock secs (31.65 usr +  0.04 sys = 31.69 CPU) @
+  6.31/s (n=200)
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