INTERESTING!

Maybe it doesn't hurt to program the way your brain really thinks...at least not this time. You see, I stripped down the MJD code to its barest form, exactly from the book. Then I removed the print statements from my own version which was just shared in the node previous to this node.

Surprise: despite the fact that I'm passing around a reference to my "$share" with each call, my code benches twice as fast. I'm betting it's because I'm not constantly recalculating the "$target".

Anyway, here's the benchmarks. I wonder what conclusions could be drawn. If I cared more, I'd run it through Devel::NYTprof and find out what's really going on and why it's faster to do it the way that makes the most sense to my dyslexic brain:

$ perl ./find_shares_myway_2.pl
Benchmark: timing 500000 iterations of test1...
     test1: 16 wallclock secs (15.43 usr +  0.00 sys = 15.43 CPU) @ 32
+404.41/s (n=500000)
$VAR1 = {
          'test1' => bless( [
                              16,
                              '15.43',
                              0,
                              0,
                              0,
                              500000
                            ], 'Benchmark' )
        };


$ perl ./find_shares.pl
Benchmark: timing 500000 iterations of test1...
     test1: 31 wallclock secs (30.10 usr +  0.02 sys = 30.12 CPU) @ 16
+600.27/s (n=500000)
$VAR1 = {
          'test1' => bless( [
                              31,
                              '30.1',
                              '0.02',
                              0,
                              0,
                              500000
                            ], 'Benchmark' )
        };
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