At 00:08 -0500 2001.11.20, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 05:09:45PM -0700, Keary Suska wrote:
>> IIRC, technically, the for() would take more time but only noticeable with
>> exceptionally large arrays. I seem to recall something about for() copying
>> an array before iterating.
>
>I'm not sure what you mean about for() copying an array before iterating.
>That is certainly not the case.
I think maybe there's confusion about this case:
for (0 .. 1000000) { ... }
This would not *copy* anything, but it does (used to) create a list of 1
million (+1) elements. This has been optimized in perl 5.6 and later,
IIRC, so such a large list is no longer created.
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