benchable6

query

compare HEAD use nqp; my $a = "foo"; my $b; for ^10_000_000 { $b = nqp::if(nqp::istype($a, Str), $a, $a.Str) }; say $b; ||| use nqp; my $a = "foo"; my $b; for ^10_000_000 { $b = $a.Str }; say $b;

result

¦HEAD: «Benchmark: 
Timing 10 iterations of 0, 1...
foo
foo
foo
foo
foo
foo
foo
foo
foo
foo
         0: 9.8118 wallclock secs @ 1.0192/s (n=10)
foo
foo
foo
foo
foo
foo
foo
foo
foo
foo
         1: 5.2851 wallclock secs @ 1.8921/s (n=10)
O---O--------O-----O------O
|   | Rate   | 0   | 1    |
O===O========O=====O======O
| 0 | 1.02/s | --  | -46% |
| 1 | 1.89/s | 86% | --   |
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