Re: [FWP] Love & Hate shenanigans

[Tony Bowden <tony-fwp@blackstar.co.uk>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 02:49:21PM +0200, Sven Neuhaus wrote:
> Also interesting: Converting the large array to a hash is very slow with
> map and fast with foreach:

> #%Words = map { $_ => 1 } @Words; # takes ages?!
> foreach (@Words) { $Words{$_} = 1 } # fast

Should be even faster still with a hash slice ...

@Words{@Words} = (1) x @words;

[Haven't benchmarked in this case, but have done so recently when trying
to rewrite some of the Exporter ...]

Tony
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