in reply to Making an Object faster?

This will make no difference to run-time performance; you only pay the penalty once, when the file is loaded. 

$h=$ENV{HOME};my@q=split/\n\n/,`cat $h/.quotes`;$s="$h/."
."signature";$t=`cat $s`;print$t,"\n",$q[rand($#q)],"\n";

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