[FWP] Benchmarking $|++

[Tushar Samant <D@i-works.com>]

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Peter Scott wrote:
>[...] saying that someone else who had written
>
>         $|++;
>
>should have written it as
>
>         $| = 1;
>
>since it executes faster (and produced Benchmark data to prove it).
>
>Think about it.

Well I did, and my head hurts a bit, but I think I know what it means.
In fact I benchmarked them right now and it's true. On my machine the
latter is almost 8 microseconds faster. I will be properly grateful as
soon as I stop laughing. Peace

--
Tushar Samant
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