Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks
There's more than one way to do things
 
PerlMonks  

comment on

( [id://3333]=superdoc: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??
Edit: thanks remiah for showing me the error of my ways. While updating the benchmark test functions, I also changed the benchmark itself from 'timethese' to 'cmpthese' which displays the results in order of slowest to fastest. Using map is in fact slower than using foreach.

I realized that output should be spewing all over my console with the test right after I hit send (Doh!)

Here's my revised benchmark, with STDOUT redirected to null. Map is still 'not' the clear leader. verbose, verbose2, verbose4 and verbose4 ('for' instead of 'foreach') are all within statistical noise of each other (and can change significantly with each run), so none of them are any better than the other.

Printing to null might also have an affect on the results, but it's clear that map is 'not' faster. Maybe because for/foreach must also be ready for a 'next' or 'last' or even a 'return' within the loop? I may have to re-think when I use foreach vs map.

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Benchmark qw(:all); my %h; @h{'A'..'Z','a'..'z'} = 1..52; sub verbose { my $hash = shift; foreach my $key (sort keys %$hash) { print "$key: $hash->{$key}\n"; } } sub verbose2 { my $hash = shift; foreach (sort keys %$hash) { print "$_: $hash->{$_}\n"; } } sub verbose3 { my $hash = shift; print "$_: $hash->{$_}\n" foreach sort keys %$hash; } sub verbose4 { my $hash = shift; print "$_: $hash->{$_}\n" for sort keys %$hash; } sub idiom { my $hash = shift; print map "$_: $hash->{$_}\n", sort keys %$hash; } cmpthese(-10, { 'Verbose' => sub{ local *STDOUT; open STDOUT, '>/dev/null' or warn "Can't open /dev/null: $!"; verbose(\%h) }, 'Verbose2' => sub{ local *STDOUT; open STDOUT, '>/dev/null' or warn "Can't open /dev/null: $!"; verbose2(\%h) }, 'Verbose3' => sub{ local *STDOUT; open STDOUT, '>/dev/null' or warn "Can't open /dev/null: $!"; verbose3(\%h) }, 'Verbose4' => sub{ local *STDOUT; open STDOUT, '>/dev/null' or warn "Can't open /dev/null: $!"; verbose4(\%h) }, 'Idiom' => sub{ local *STDOUT; open STDOUT, '>/dev/null' or warn "Can't open /dev/null: $!"; idiom(\%h) }, });
Results: Rate Idiom Verbose Verbose4 Verbose3 Verbose2 Idiom 14273/s -- -9% -11% -12% -12% Verbose 15703/s 10% -- -2% -3% -3% Verbose4 16029/s 12% 2% -- -1% -1% Verbose3 16129/s 13% 3% 1% -- -0% Verbose2 16151/s 13% 3% 1% 0% --

In reply to Re^4: Efficiency of map vs. more verbose basic/fundamental code by ruzam
in thread Efficiency of map vs. more verbose basic/fundamental code by marquezc329

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post; it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":



  • Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
    <code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>
  • Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
  • Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.
Log In?
Username:
Password:

What's my password?
Create A New User
Domain Nodelet?
Chatterbox?
and the web crawler heard nothing...

How do I use this?Last hourOther CB clients
Other Users?
Others meditating upon the Monastery: (6)
As of 2024-03-28 13:15 GMT
Sections?
Information?
Find Nodes?
Leftovers?
    Voting Booth?

    No recent polls found