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Re: Shift versus Sanity

by phil_g (Initiate)
on Apr 24, 2002 at 15:47 UTC ( [id://161646]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Shift versus Sanity

I think it's largely a stylistic choice. I tend to prefer my ($foo, $bar) = @_;. I did, at one point, do timing tests on @_ versus shift. For my test data (which consisted of object references and strings), I found that shift was generally faster for one and two parameters, both approaches were roughly the same for three parameters, and @_ was faster for more than three parameters.

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