#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Benchmark qw(:all); my %h; @h{'A'..'Z','a'..'z'} = 1..52; sub verbose { my $hash = shift; foreach my $key (sort keys %$hash) { print "$key: $hash->{$key}\n"; } } sub verbose2 { my $hash = shift; foreach (sort keys %$hash) { print "$_: $hash->{$_}\n"; } } sub verbose3 { my $hash = shift; print "$_: $hash->{$_}\n" foreach sort keys %$hash; } sub verbose4 { my $hash = shift; print "$_: $hash->{$_}\n" for sort keys %$hash; } sub idiom { my $hash = shift; print map "$_: $hash->{$_}\n", sort keys %$hash; } cmpthese(-10, { 'Verbose' => sub{ local *STDOUT; open STDOUT, '>/dev/null' or warn "Can't open /dev/null: $!"; verbose(\%h) }, 'Verbose2' => sub{ local *STDOUT; open STDOUT, '>/dev/null' or warn "Can't open /dev/null: $!"; verbose2(\%h) }, 'Verbose3' => sub{ local *STDOUT; open STDOUT, '>/dev/null' or warn "Can't open /dev/null: $!"; verbose3(\%h) }, 'Verbose4' => sub{ local *STDOUT; open STDOUT, '>/dev/null' or warn "Can't open /dev/null: $!"; verbose4(\%h) }, 'Idiom' => sub{ local *STDOUT; open STDOUT, '>/dev/null' or warn "Can't open /dev/null: $!"; idiom(\%h) }, });