LA.pm: Re: Prepend

[Ask Bjoern Hansen]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Arkadiy Sudarikov wrote:

> It's prepared once, cached, and executed twice. First time to get the count,
> second to format and output data.

That must be about three billion times more inefficient than just
doing count(*) the first time.

(Or saving to a temporary file and then creating the final file
after you have the count).


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