> > You have to stop spending so much time playing with all this bogus > > benchmarking :) > > It not bogus :) Its an example to find the best method for a project. > > If you prefer I'll ask the question I was trying to answer with the > benchmark: > > Assuming you have an array of 0-15 elements is it > quicker/more efficient to: > > 1) create a hash slice and use exists when checking for > specific ones > or > 2) grep a regex out of the array when checking for specific ones
If you're going to be looking for something in an array over and over again, perhaps you shouldn't be using an array as your data structure. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
