You're right. I'm surprised too (not least because map could actually be implemented that way within perl...). I get a lot of variability (perl 5.8.8, x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi), but the for loop is a little faster.
All the comments about better style still stand, but I would certainly have expected the map to be faster. This is odd. Anyone have a 5.10 to hand to see if anything has changed?
Sidenote:
# Populate list with 10 mio numbers
for (my $i=0; $i<1000_000; $i++) {
push @results, $i;
}
is perhaps better written as:
my @results = (0..1_000_000);
(Of course, given your observation regarding map, whether it performs better is now a whole 'nother ball of wax.)
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