Re: Out-Of-Date Optimizations? New Idioms? RAM vs. CPU

[Juerd]

So I was wondering if there are monks out there that have found any (new) coding idioms in (today's) Perl that favor using CPU over memory, and have found them to be faster than a (old) coding idiom (favoring memory over CPU).

Quite often, a non-ST sort is faster than a ST. It depends on the data, the machine and the resources available on that machine. But many people (including me, I noticed) write STs without thinking or benchmarking.

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