"Perl Heresies: Building Arrays Out Of Objects" - Companion Code

Benchmarks
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The benchmarks compare the space and speed performance of two sets of
classes with an identical interface.  Their difference is that one
stores its objects as hashes and the other arrays.  The classes are
laid out as follows:

    Hash Implementation                  Array Implementation
    -------------------                  --------------------
    HashBase.pm           base classes   ArrayBase.pm
    HashSub.pm             subclasses    ArraySub.pm

speed measures their respective performances by use of the Benchmark
module.  {hash,array}mem create lots of objects.  These are only
interesting if your perl was built with -DPERL_DEBUG_MSTATS.

Convenience Module
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Array/Class.pm is a convenience module for declaring the superclass
and attributes.  See the module's documentation for more information.

Contact
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If you have questions, comments, or criticism, I'd be glad to hear
any or all of them.  Feel free to mail me at gbacon@cs.uah.edu.