Because the conversion to auto-generated accessors is running slower than pre-defined accessors, even though the pre-defined ones were slower, 1-for-1 than the ones I'm generating in the auto-generated.

Doesn't matter. I'm recompiling Perl for use with Devel::DProf and I'll figure it out soon enough. I was just wondering if anyone had a quick answer for me. :-)

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