in reply to Re: Large scale search and replace with perl -i
in thread Large scale search and replace with perl -i

process creation is a fairly expensive operation, but so is calling a function in Perl
Of course, these two are worlds apart in expense. (I'm not disagreeing with the rest of the sentiment here, though.)

Makeshifts last the longest.

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