[LA.pm] C-style Perl vs. regex

[Ask Bjørn Hansen]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 14:22:49 -0600 "Andy Lester" <andy at petdance.com> wrote:
>
>If you're talking about intro-level Perl to a converted C programmer,  
>the last thing you want to bother cluttering his brain with worrying  
>about infintesimal speed concerns

Unless you are building something you know is going to run hundreds of 
millions or billions of times a day then it is almost be definition a waste 
of time to worry about those tiny optimizations.

(and if your system is already running and running slow it is probably not 
because of little stuff like this)


   - ask

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