in reply to Re^6: Why is "any" slow in this case?
in thread Why is "any" slow in this case?

Correct, I'm referring to the magic added by sv_magic.

$ perl -MDevel::Peek -e'Dump( $1 )' SV = PVMG(0x561e81adde40) at 0x561e81af86f0 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (GMG,SMG) # Has get magic, has set magic IV = 0 NV = 0 PV = 0 MAGIC = 0x561e81b067d0 # Magic's data, incl callbacks MG_VIRTUAL = &PL_vtbl_sv MG_TYPE = PERL_MAGIC_sv(\0) MG_OBJ = 0x561e81af86d8 MG_LEN = 1

Magic is used by most punctuation vars (e.g. $!, $$, %ENV, %SIG), tie, lvalue operators (specifically substr, vec, pos and $#a), f( $h{ x } ) (to prevent autovivification) and more.