Is Perl *that* good?

[Steve Lamb]

On 2004-04-28, Carl Banks <imbosol at aerojockey.invalid> wrote:
> Because if regexp objects are local, they have to be recompiled every
> time you call the function.  If you're doing that, you could be taking
> a performance hit.  I guess it depends on your functional style,
> though.  If your scripts have only one or two functions where all the
> regexps are and it only gets called a few times, then it probably
> won't matter too much to you.

    Hrm, this gives me a hint on why one of my work scripts seems to be
running so slowly.  I think I might be compiling REs every pass and it
shouldn't be.  

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