Interesting! That's the kind of answer I was hoping someone would post. For anyone who's keeping score, here's a benchmark and my results:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Benchmark qw(cmpthese);
my $i=0;
cmpthese(-10,
{
deref => sub {
my $aryptr = [qw(Once upon a time in a galaxy far far away
+)];
if ( @{ $aryptr } )
{
$i=1;
}
$aryptr = [];
if ( @{ $aryptr } )
{
$i=-1;
}
},
arylen => sub {
my $aryptr = [qw(Once upon a time in a galaxy far far away
+)];
if ( $#{ $aryptr } >= 0 )
{
$i=1;
}
$aryptr = [];
if ( $#{ $aryptr } >= 0 )
{
$i=-1;
}
},
}
);
__END__
Rate arylen deref
arylen 95903/s -- -28%
deref 132418/s 38% --
print pack("A25",pack("V*",map{1919242272+$_}(34481450,-49737472,6228,0,-285028276,6979,-1380265972)))
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