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Which nicely demonstrates that getting the code correct is vastly more important than fussing over execution speed. In the context of data fetched across the interwebs any of the proposed solutions are many times faster then would have any impact on the efficacy of the script.

Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond
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