From: Shawn H Corey <shawnhco...@gmail.com> > Jenda Krynicky wrote: > > ST is an overkill if the extraction is simple. > > > > Especially if the number of items is fairly small. > > > > Actually if the extraction is really simple and the extracted key is > > not so small, than ST may perform worse than an ordinary sort doing > > the extraction within the comparison block. The additional array > > creation and destruction and increased memory load will more than > > ofset the lower number of extractions. > > Who cares? Modern computers are big enough and fast enough to handle > everything except editing movies.
OK. So because modern computers are fast enough to handle everything you'll employ an optimization pattern that actually hurts performance even though it complicates the code. Lovely. Using ST while it's not needed is silly. Pattern or no pattern. In this particular case the best solution is to silence the bogus warning. Jenda ===== je...@krynicky.cz === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
