> But how did you prove that $foo is recompiling?

I can't find any proof that anything is recompiled, even with //g. 


D:\>perl -E"my $x; BEGIN{$x=qr/a.*u/}; use re 'debug'; my $str = 'aou'
+; say $str
 =~ /$x/"
1

D:\>perl -E"my $x; BEGIN{$x=qr/a.*u/}; use re 'debug'; my $str = 'aou'
+; say $str
 =~ /$x/g"
aou

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Please compare the verbose output if you replace qr// with q//

D:\>perl -E"my $x; BEGIN{$x=q/a.*u/}; use re 'debug'; my $str = 'aou';
+ say $str
=~ /$x/"
Compiling REx "a.*u"
Final program:
   1: EXACT <a> (3)
   3: STAR (5)
   4:   REG_ANY (0)
   5: EXACT <u> (7)
   7: END (0)
anchored "a" at 0..0 floating "u" at 1..9223372036854775807 (checking 
+floating)
minlen 2
Matching REx "a.*u" against "aou"
Intuit: trying to determine minimum start position...
  doing 'check' fbm scan, [1..3] gave 2
  Found floating substr "u" at offset 2 (rx_origin now 0)...
... YADDA YADDA ...

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So how do you know???

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

update

And that's whats happening if you have more than one precompiled regex inside the match, like expected.

D:\>perl -E"my $x; BEGIN{$x=qr/a.*u/}; use re 'debug'; my $str = 'aou'
+; say $str
 =~ /$x$x/"
Compiling REx "(?^u:a.*u)(?^u:a.*u)"
Final program:
   1: EXACT <a> (3)
   3: STAR (5)
   4:   REG_ANY (0)
   5: EXACT <ua> (9)
   9: STAR (11)
  10:   REG_ANY (0)
  11: EXACT <u> (13)
  13: END (0)
anchored "a" at 0..0 floating "ua" at 1..9223372036854775807 (checking
+ floating)
 minlen 4
String shorter than min possible regex match (3 < 4)

Freeing REx: "(?^u:a.*u)(?^u:a.*u)"

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FWIW:

This is perl 5, version 32, subversion 1 (v5.32.1) built for MSWin32-x
+64-multi-t
hread

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In reply to Re^5: On the regex pattern variable to be inserted into another (which recompile???) by LanX
in thread On the regex pattern variable to be inserted into another by Anonymous Monk

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