[Melbourne-pm] When your variables can't keep their types..

[Mathew Robertson]

Caching doesn't make much sense.

The perlop defines how a value it is used - it shouldn't matter how it is
stored, which (with a few seconds of thought) probably be as a binary
blob.... it is the attribute/tags that define whether it is a pointer,
string as per today

Obviously comparing a 32bit number vs another 32bit number, will be
thousands of cycles faster for an int than a char*.... but given that Perl
isn't the fastest language, so I wouldn't expect that to be a dominating
difference.

... unless "use integer" is in effect.

On 6 June 2016 at 10:39, Andrew Pam <andrew at sericyb.com.au> wrote:

> On 06/06/16 10:35, Simon Taylor wrote:
>
>> I didn't run your sample to see if it behaved the same way here, but it
>> is very counter-intuitive behavior.
>>
>
> One word: caching.
>
> Once you stringify, why repeat the work?  It makes sense once you
> understand the design decision.
>
> Cheers,
>     Andrew
>
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