Re: RFC: Apache::Request::Forms (or something similar)

[Drew Taylor]

brian moseley wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 18 May 2000, Autarch wrote:
> 
> > C seems like serious overkill for something to simply
> > generate plain text output.  How slow is making a string
> > in perl compared to doing it in C?  I can't imagine
> > there's to much of a difference.
> 
> pretty slow if you build a string using .= instead of using
> smarter methods, like pushing strings onto an array and then
> joining it.
I didn't know joining array elements was faster. How much slower is
using the .= operator rather than join "\n", @array?

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