On Wednesday, October 31, 2001, at 09:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> just how much of an improvement would I see > if I convert the object over to a blessed array? > are arrays significantly faster than hashes > or just marginally faster? As noted, there is a gain to be found. How much impact that will have in your program probably depends on how the code is written, so rules of thumb like 10% or 15% are a good start, but really the best way to find out (provided that a rewrite is feasible) is to come up with two different versions and benchmark 'em both. I would think that for anything that has to be *fast*, arrays should generally be preferred to hashes if possible (taking the point of view that they're part of the language to assist programmer efficiency, not computer efficiency...). -- Chris Devers / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/
