Re: Optimizing non-alphanumeric method calls (any!)

[tye]

            Rate
magic  3495252/s
can    3510857/s
ref    5518821/s
var    5887725/s
direct 8340945/s

Those are all such tiny operations with such close rates that it would be almost impossible to implement a practical script where any of those approaches resulted in an even noticeable difference in total performance.

Use whichever makes the code clearer.