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in reply to Re: Re: Re: Common Regex Gotchas
in thread Common Regex Gotchas

I don't see any occurence of the $& et al. variables in the code for Benchmark.pm

I think what our Anonymous friend means is that if one of the routines being benchmarked uses $&, then all routines suffer (unfairly) from the overhead.