[KLUG Members] Standard Regular Expressions (REs)

[Jamie McCarthy]

awilliam@whitemice.org (Adam Williams) writes:

> Alot of perl module seem to do a terrible amount of memcpyss,
> mallocs, etc... like they are making copy upon copy's of
> strings or something. I haven't look at the perl code, just
> aimed debugging tools at running programs a few times.

Perl 5.6 improved performance in that regard a fair amount...
I wonder if you were profiling >= 5.6, or <= 5.005 ...