Here's the benchmark code:
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Benchmark qw{ cmpthese }; sub precat { my ($string, $prefix) = @_; $string = $prefix . $string; $string } sub Substr { my ($string, $prefix) = @_; substr $string, 0, 0, $prefix; $string } sub subst { my ($string, $prefix) = @_; $string =~ s/^/$prefix/; $string } use Test::More; is precat('def', 'abc'), 'abcdef', 'correct concat'; is Substr('def', 'abc'), 'abcdef', 'same substr'; is subst('def', 'abc'), 'abcdef', 'same subst'; done_testing(3); cmpthese( -3, { precat => q( precat 'def', 'abc' ), substr => q( Substr 'def', 'abc' ), subst => q( subst 'def', 'abc' ), });

Here's the result on my machine:

ok 1 - correct concat ok 2 - same substr ok 3 - same subst 1..3 Rate subst precat substr subst 1770916/s -- -38% -47% precat 2860656/s 62% -- -15% substr 3350927/s 89% 17% --

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In reply to Re^5: Reversed .= operator by choroba
in thread Reversed .= operator by 1nickt

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