[HRPM] Implicit vs. Explicit

[Collin Cusce']

I have a question regarding the  implicit nature of perl. Perl allows the developer to get away with a TON of sorry code for the sake of rapid development. What I'm wondering is does the implicit nature of perl make execution slower or faster. For example, is it faster to say "$length = scalar(@myarray);"  rather than to say "$length = @myarray;"? They both do the same thing, only one explicitly observes @myarray in a scalar context and the other is implicit. Is this sort of behavior what makes mod_php ever so slightly faster than mod_perl on SOME benchmarks? Comments?

Also, what is going on with the meeting next week? Who's gunna talk, where do we meet, where was everybody last time, and wtf? 
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