Re: RFC 158 (v1) Regular Expression Special Variables

[email protected] (Mark-Jason Dominus) Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:15:30 -0400

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> But maybe the effect of $& is greatly exaggerated or is a relic from
> perl4?  Has anyone actually benchmarked this recently?

Matching with $& enabled is about 40% slower.

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