I have been working on my module to speed it up and have gained a lot of speed, but I see there are still some spots I can gain a lot more.

This is the code I want to speed up, I would like to have it run in a loop but those loops seems to like to eat time.
my @AUBBC_TAGS = ('b','i','sub','sup','pre','ul','ol','small','big','l
+i','p','h1','h2','h3','h4','h5','h6','div','strong');

my $message = '[b] stuff [i] stuff [/i] [/b]';
foreach (@AUBBC_TAGS) { $message =~ s{\[(.?)?$_\]}{<$1$_>}xg; }
print $message;

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I know this will leave open tags in HTML and I dont realy care. Speed is what Im after here.

The code that I made that was faster is.

my $message = '[b] stuff [i] stuff [/i] [/b]';
$message =~ s{\[(.?)?([\w]+)\]}{<$1$2>}xgo;
print $message;

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But that code doesn't work off a list and I would like if it did.

Update 2: Everyones post helped so ++ to all.
Since the array was so small I ended up just doing this.
$message =~ s/\[(\/?(?:big|h[123456]|[ou]?li?|pre|s(?:mall|trong|u[bp])|[bip]))\]/<$1>/gxo;
I guess I will stick with that for now.

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