Rob Dixon wrote:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> The Advantage is you get to use the switch statement. The disadvantage is
>> your code will run extraordinarily slow because the Switch module uses a
>> run time Filter. In short: isn't an is-elsif-else statement enough??
>
> Are you saying that 'if-elsif-else' is a compile-time filter? It isn't.
> So I guess 'if-elsif-else' runs extraordinarily slow too.
>
> AFAIK Switch allows coding that runs no more slowly than 'if', and lets
> you express some solutions much more neatly.
>
> Rob
last time i benchmark a source filter, it's about 100 times slower. has that
change since v5.8?
david
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sub'_{print"@_ ";* \ = * __ ,\ & \}
sub'__{print"@_ ";* \ = * ___ ,\ & \}
sub'___{print"@_ ";* \ = * ____ ,\ & \}
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