Hmm, that's interesting, there is some data-dependency! My first attempt to make some fake data, like yours, didn't lead to any performance difference between 5.8.8 and 5.30.0. So I made the data-faker a little smarter (in particular, multi-line begfoo declarations) and was able to get a delta to show up:

my $num = shift or die "num?\n";

for my $i (0 .. $num) {

    my @in  = map { "input$_"  } (0..int(rand(100)));
    my @out = map { "output$_" } (0..int(rand(100)));

    print "begfoo FOO_$i (\n", join(",\n", @in, @out), ");\n";
    print "  input  $_;\n" foreach @in;
    print "  output $_;\n" foreach @out;
    print "  foo inst$_ (j, k, l, m, n, o, p);\n" foreach 0 .. int(ran
+d(100));
    print "endfoo\n\n";
}

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I generated some dummy output with 50000 definitions: "make_out.pl 50000 > 50k.foo", giving a file about 263Mb and that was large/real enough to show a definite 2x difference:

In reply to Re^2: regex gotcha moving from 5.8.8 to 5.30.0? by mordibity
in thread regex gotcha moving from 5.8.8 to 5.30.0? by mordibity

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