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in reply to Using map to create a hash/bag from an array

Benchmarks are interesting:

use strict; use warnings; use Set::Scalar; use Benchmark qw(cmpthese); my @array = qw(a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z); cmpthese (-1, { 'GF' => sub {my %hash; @hash{@array} = (1) x @array;}, 'map' => sub {my %hash = map {($_, 1)} @array;}, 'map++' => sub {my %hash; map {$hash{$_}++} @array;}, 'set' => sub {my $set = Set::Scalar->new(@array);}, } );

Prints:

Rate set map map++ GF set 2203/s -- -84% -91% -92% map 13740/s 524% -- -46% -49% map++ 25598/s 1062% 86% -- -6% GF 27113/s 1131% 97% 6% --

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel