You slow your program down by using $`. Why do this, when you can simply say (and these tests ALL ASSUME that you are given a FULLY QUALIFIED name, meaning there is at least one :: in it): 
($package,$symbol) = $qualified_name =~ /(.*)::(.*)/;

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I came up with another method, too, using rindex() and unpack(). I benchmarked yours and mine in separate processes so mine wouldn't be jinxed by yours using $`. 
RESULTS:
$qualified_name = 'My::Class::Path::func'
Benchmark: timing 100000 iterations of Lunatic...
   Lunatic: 15 wallclock secs (13.99 usr +  0.00 sys = 13.99 CPU)

$qualified_name = 'My::Class::Path::myfunc'
Benchmark: timing 100000 iterations of Jeff1, Jeff2...
     Jeff1:  8 wallclock secs ( 8.95 usr +  0.00 sys =  8.95 CPU)
     Jeff2:  9 wallclock secs ( 8.82 usr +  0.00 sys =  8.82 CPU)

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I'll include my code below in a moment. I also tried these on longer qualfied names, SPECIFICALLY one with a longer symbol name. Note: disregard the "wallclock secs" times; they're obviously munged up. 
$qualified_name = 'My::Class::Path::myfuncdamnthisisareallylongstring'
Benchmark: timing 100000 iterations of Jeff1, Jeff2...
     Jeff1: 12 wallclock secs (12.54 usr +  0.00 sys = 12.54 CPU)
     Jeff2: 10 wallclock secs ( 9.55 usr +  0.00 sys =  9.55 CPU)

$qualified_name = 'My::REALLYLONGClass::PathPathPath::myfuncdamnthisis
+areallylongstring'
Benchmark: timing 100000 iterations of Jeff1, Jeff2...
     Jeff1: 12 wallclock secs (12.73 usr +  0.00 sys = 12.73 CPU)
     Jeff2:  8 wallclock secs ( 9.14 usr +  0.00 sys =  9.14 CPU)

$qualified_name = 'My::REALLYLONGClass::PathPathPath::myfunc'
Benchmark: timing 100000 iterations of Jeff1, Jeff2...
     Jeff1: 11 wallclock secs ( 9.12 usr +  0.00 sys =  9.12 CPU)
     Jeff2:  8 wallclock secs ( 8.78 usr +  0.00 sys =  8.78 CPU)

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And there you have it. It seems my rindex() and unpack() method outruns the regex approach every time. Here it is, for your amusement and edification: 
my ($pkg,$sym) = unpack
  "A" . rindex($qualified_name, "::") . " x2 A*",
  $qualified_name;

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In reply to RE: Parsing Class Paths by japhy
in thread Parsing Class Paths by LunaticLeo

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