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in thread Odometer pattern iterator (in C). (Updated.)

As I said at the time. It's nice for pure perl, by avoiding the generate to eliminate steps; but it a) generates a sub on the fly -- impossible in C; b) calls into the regex engine, which isn't cheap.

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