On 1 Nov 2007 15:36:09 -0700, howa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So if I have an object, I don't have to pass its reference to function > for performance gain? > > is that true?
What performance gain are you talking about? When someone speaks of passing an object to a function in Perl, that normally means passing a reference. There's no more efficient way to pass an object as a parameter. Normally, you should write your code in the way that makes sense to you. Let Perl worry about whether it's performing as well as it should; Perl is better at that task than you are, and it's probably doing a pretty good job. Once your program is finished and debugged, if you'd still like it to run faster, *then* you can profile it and see what needs optimizing. Having said that, I'll go so far as to say that, in general, an object oriented program will run somewhat slower than the equivalent program in a non-OO algorithm or language. If your goal is to make the program run as fast as possible on the available hardware, you want something low-level, like assembly language. One codes with objects not to make the programs run as quickly as possible, but because OOP is a good way to divide the task at hand into manageable pieces. Cheers! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
