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Thanks. It is nice to have some numbers and some corroboration. 3 seconds is almost shockingly slow to just read 10000 filenames and compare to a glob string. Especially since I thought Perl is using C code for this (taken from some well-respected free shell implementation, I think). I also appreciate the "I'd do it with glob [... unless] embedded in a library", which matches my thinking on the subject (except that I think glob can probably be "fixed" and so I might even use glob in a library based on that expectation). So I'm still curious why glob is so slow. I'm not sure when I'll find the time/motivation to investigate further (probably comparing built-in glob vs. File::Glob, File::DosGlob, and my own File::KGlob and verifying some of my own assumptions). I'm also still interested in seeing numbers from the original poster. It sounds like you would see less than 2 seconds difference in run time in a similar situation. I have a hard time characterizing 2 seconds as an "impressive" difference, but I've seen such characterizations made based on the ratio of run times so that might be the whole story. But it could also be that licking9Volts was seeing a much bigger difference. - tyeIn reply to Re^3: Things every perl programmer should know? (faster?)
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