On Thu, 2006-06-04 at 13:10 -0700, Ryan Gies wrote:
> With the intention of optimization, I am looking for a way around using
> *eval* in the below snippet at line 19:
>
> my $value = eval $key;
Please say this is a late April Fool's joke. Your suggested use of eval
is not optimal. This is the fastest, and easiest to understand, method
of extracting data from a data structure:
my $value = $hash{food}{fruit}[0];
The way use you eval is a string eval, which is very costly in terms of
processing time. The Perl interrupter must be restarted every time this
statement is encountered. Just stick with POP (Plain Old Perl).
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Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
--- Shawn
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