The point is that $` with friends slow down every other pattern as well. If you use /p you will still have a comparatively slow match, but it won't effect the other matches. 

use 5.010;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Benchmark qw(cmpthese timethese);

my $r1 = timethese( -1, {
    p_before    => sub { 'hola juan' =~ /ju/p },
    no_p_before => sub { 'hola juan' =~ /ju/  },
}, 'none');

eval '$`';

my $r2 = timethese( -1, {
    p_after    => sub { 'hola juan' =~ /ju/p },
    no_p_after => sub { 'hola juan' =~ /ju/  },
}, 'none');

cmpthese({ %$r1, %$r2 });

__END__
                 Rate    p_before  no_p_after     p_after no_p_before
p_before    1067899/s          --         -2%         -2%        -80%
no_p_after  1084733/s          2%          --         -1%        -80%
p_after     1091288/s          2%          1%          --        -79%
no_p_before 5318863/s        398%        390%        387%          --

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As you see, the pattern with /p and the patterns executed after $` has been seen are equally fast, and that makes sense since they do the same work. The pattern without /p and before $` is however significantly faster, since it does not have to compute the extra match variables.

Hope this helps,
lodin

In reply to Re: The /p modifier in Perl5.10 regexps by lodin
in thread The /p modifier in Perl5.10 regexps by casiano

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