Re: [OT] Re: [performance/benchmark] printing techniques

[Matt Sergeant]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Eric Cholet wrote:
> > 
> > > This said, i hurry back to s/"constant strings"/'constant strings'/g;
> > 
> > Those two are equal.
> 
> Yes, although it's counter-intutive there's no real performance hit
> from double-quoting constant strings.
> 
> The one that bugs me is when I see people doing this:
> 
> $hash{"$key"}
> 
> instead of this:
> 
> $hash{$key}

Those two now also result in the same code. ;-)

But the former is just ugly.

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