On Tue 26 Oct 2004 12:24, Elizabeth Mattijsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > sub statename {
> >> > my $name = 'david';
> >> > ${\$name} = 'liz';
> >> > return "hello, my name is $name";
> >> > }
> >
> >But surely in this case the ${\$name} should itself be optimised to $name
> >first?
>
> Well, possibly. I just wrote it that way to be as succinct as
> possible. I seriously doubt whether spending the extra cycles for
> checking for this particular type of situation are worth the
> optimization.
This one would be a compile time optimilization, and would happen only once.
The de-ref would be done run-time, and the time gained is completely depending
on how often it would happen
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