Re: [MacPerl] File::Sort

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 16.29 12/22/97, Andrew M. Langmead wrote:
>Well, I'm sure that the results vary depending on the overhead of the
>coderef itself, but it seems to be a big enough difference to justify
>it. A longer running comparison routine would lessen the significance
>calling overhead. I've checked it before on unix and unixlike boxes,
>but this is the first time I've checked in with MacPerl. Macperl seems
>to be a bit on the slower side (the typeglob aliased version takes
>about 1/3 of the time, where others shave it down to almost 1/4) but
>it still is significant.

Thanks Andrew.  You saved me from having to check it out myself.  :)

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