To call or not to call

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On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 04:39:46AM +0000, Richard Kreiss thus spoke:
> Is it more efficient to use a call or a gosub when decrypting a field on every record of an output?

Depends whether the called table loads once when seen, or every time
through the table.  I'd have to look at an strace to find out.

But in practical terms, you're likely not going to notice any difference on
anything resembling modern hardware.  Any inefficiency in the worst case is
going to be so small as makes no difference.

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