Re: [FWP] array->hash (was: Love & Hate shenanigans)

[Uri Guttman <uri@sysarch.com>]

>>>>> "RH" == Robin Houston <robin@kitsite.com> writes:

  >> Also interesting: Converting the large array to a hash is very slow with
  >> map and fast with foreach:

  RH> According to my benchmark (attached), it's slightly quicker to do

  RH> @Array{@Array} = (1)x@Array;

  RH> which is a beautiful trick :-)

	@Array{@Array} = () ;

is even faster i believe. if all you are going to do is text with exists
this works well. check out my hash slice tutorial which has many tricks
like this.

http://tlc.perlarchive.com/articles/perl/ug0001.shtml

slices are an underutilized perl feature IMO.

uri

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