#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Benchmark qw[cmpthese]; =pod This benchmark compares the overhead of a auto-created type constraint vs. none at all vs. a custom-created type. =cut { package Foo; use Moose; use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints; has 'baz' => (is => 'rw'); has 'bar' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Foo'); } { package Bar; sub new { bless {} => __PACKAGE__ } sub bar { my $self = shift; $self->{bar} = shift if @_; $self->{bar}; } } my $foo = Foo->new; my $bar = Bar->new; cmpthese(200_000, { 'hand coded' => sub { $bar->bar($bar); }, 'w/out_constraint' => sub { $foo->baz($foo); }, 'w_constraint' => sub { $foo->bar($foo); }, } ); 1;