Another update, bringing to 331. Though I'm not sure the change is legal, it runs the Tic-Tac-Toe program. 
map{push@L,push@C,lc=~/./g}<>;sub p{$_=pop@n}sub w{push@n,@_}while($n<
+@C){$_=$C[$n++];if(/h/){p;w$n[-1-abs];$_>0&&splice@n,-2-$_,1}if(/n/){
+w 0;$b<0||w$b+7*p while($b=index"htaoinse",$C[$n++])<7}$0=p,p,w int$_
+/$0,$_%$0if/e/;$a=p,p&&($a?$n=$L[$a-2]:last)if/t/;/a/?w 2+grep$n>$_,@
+L:/o/?print chr p:/s/?w-(p)+p:/i/&&w+($_=getc)?ord:-1}

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The change was to functionally remove the 0 at the beginning of @L. Adjusting the subscripts used to access @L seems to result in an acceptable performance.

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In reply to 29 characters to beat Ruby ... by dragonchild
in thread Is Perl less compact than Ruby? (Kind of competition) by locked_user mtve

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