| castoff | merlyn: is it true that array iteration is better performance wise than hash iteration? |
| * avar | would guess that array iter is faster than hash iter |
| merlyn | what is "hash iter"? |
| merlyn | with "each()"? |
| castoff | foreach key… |
| avar | yeah, or keys |
| merlyn | I don't see those as comparable |
| merlyn | when you have a hash, and you need to iterate, you do. |
| merlyn | when you have an array, and you need to iterate, you do |
| merlyn | what is there to choose between? |
| castoff | the hash has no real value stored other than the key so i converted to arrays |
| avar | merlyn: you can compare the speed of the two operations |
| avar | well duh |
| merlyn | Why would you compare the speed of unrelated events? |
| merlyn | "let's time baking this bread compared to driving to seattle" |
| merlyn | it's pointless |
| ides | merlyn: heh, yes, but I think it would make a funny performance comparison article! :) |
| merlyn | "always optimize for baking bread!" |
| * avar | eats merlyn |
| ides | merlyn: I was thinking more along the lines of "Performance comparison on Perl vs RoR vs Ice Fishing" |
| merlyn | "I repeated baking bread 5000 times to get the average" |
| merlyn | "It took me six years" |
| ides | merlyn: too bad there isn't a Benchmark module for my oven… |
| merlyn | Ovenmark |