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Okay, I totally understand that now; I had un-commented the print and not remembered that the 'use constant' actually does get optimised away at compile time. Very cool.

FWIW, I don't need the lvalue-ness of the accessors, setting them with param(value) makes me totally happy, especially if it saves anything. I'm embarrassed to say I've never seen the ":lvalue" attribute in use, which is rather nifty.

This is so promising. I really appreciate your expertise on this; I've tried various solutions like roboticus proposed, but performance has been unusable.