Re: [SPOILER] Solution to Perl 'Expert' Quiz-of-the-Week #22

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 11:48:22AM -0500, Rod Adams wrote:

> The interesting thing is that with the 'words' list, compound is faster 
> than simple:
> 
> D:\Code\QotW\22e>bench.pl words
>           Rate compound   simple
> compound 5.07/s       --     -63%
> simple   13.9/s     174%       --
> 
> 
> where as with 'web2', compound is slower:
> 
> D:\Code\QotW\22e>bench.pl web2
>         s/iter compound   simple
> compound   3.99       --     -45%
> simple     2.18      83%       --
> 

Simple is faster in both those benchmarks; cmpthese() always orders the
results from slowest to fastest.  It's just that the ratio is reversed
between the two results sets; the first has iterations per second, the
other has seconds per iteration.


Ronald