I haven't benchmarked it myself, but I have used HTML::Strip to strip HTML from a document, and have found it to be effective and simple. The POD for the module claims that it is about five times faster than using regular expressions to strip HTML.

Here's how you do it: 

use strict;
use warnings;

use LWP::Simple;

use HTML::Strip;

my $raw_html = get( 'http://www.somewebsite.com' );

my $hs = HTML::Strip->new();

my $clean_text = $hs->parse( $raw_html );
$hs->eof;

print $clean_text, "\n";

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Dave

In reply to Re: Stripping HTML tags efficiently by davido
in thread Stripping HTML tags efficiently by agynr

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