benchmarking Perl client hash functions

[Anatoly Vorobey]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 06:57:53PM -0400, Larry Leszczynski wrote:
> I also tried a slight variation where I did a hash lookup of the ord()
> values instead of the function call, but surprisingly (at least to me)
> that ran about 7% slower than the original:

That's because ord() is a pseudo-function. There is no actual function 
call, it just takes the first character of the scalar and returns its 
numeric value (i.e. the character itself). 
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