Re^5: Any downsides to this slurp idiom?

Okay. I have now reproduced your results with 5.22:

C:\test>\perl22\bin\perl -e"my$s=do{local(@ARGV,$/)='1gb.db';<>}; prin
+t `tasklist /nh /fi \"PID eq $$\"`;"

perl.exe                      2948 Console                    1  1,218
+,828 K
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But not from my repl. It has a variety of things preloaded:

C:\test>\perl22\bin\perl.exe \perl22\bin\p1.pl
[0]{} Perl> print for keys %INC;;
Time/HiRes.pm
Exporter/Heavy.pm
Benchmark.pm
Config_heavy.pl
overload.pm
vars.pm
threads/shared.pm
Config.pm
List/Util.pm
warnings.pm
warnings/register.pm
XSLoader.pm
feature.pm
DynaLoader.pm
strict.pm
Data/Dump.pm
ActivePerl/Config.pm
Scalar/Util.pm
C:/Perl22/site/lib/sitecustomize.pl
Carp.pm
Config_git.pl
subs.pm
Exporter.pm
threads.pm
overloading.pm
[0]{} Perl>
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One or more of which appear to interfere with this feature, which doesn't bode well. I'll investigate further sometime.

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