[thelist] More perl(s)

Mon Aug 21 03:03:24 CDT 2000

It will have a tiny nominal effect on compilation speed, but a much greater
effect on "ease of programming"! Rather than a hit on the server, each print
statement is a slight hit on the compiler, but the differens between the two
should make no discernable difference to program execution speed except in
extreme circumstances.

Use print <<EOF; as a way of being able to create larger chunks of print
output at a time, without having to worry about loads of print statements-.
It makes life easier for you - but remember that as always in perl - there's
more than one way to do it! It's a style a preference question :-)

.steve

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Fischer [mailto:adrian at logo-logic.com]
> Sent: den 21 augusti 2000 09:54
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> Subject: [thelist] More perl(s)
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> 
> Thanks Anthony for clearing up the $variable thing for me.  It works a
> treat.
> 
> Got another one for you though:
> The script I have has a gazillion "print" statements in it.  I have
> progressively gone through it and started to rewrite it and use print
> <<"EOF"; to encompass complete pages of outputted
> <html>.  Is this supposed to make the script faster or just 
> ease up the
> workload for the server.  I realise that every iteration of 
> "print" is a hit
> on the server (at least that's what I thought) so how does 
> getting rid of
> lots of them impacted on the compilation of the script as far 
> as the viewer
> is concerned?
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> 
> Adrian Fischer

> 