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in thread Converting multiple spaces to nbsp

We don't know that yet, but I'll play with benchmarking it this weekend.

My guess is that the look behind translates into a "find a space, slurp any more spaces, do the replace". My version does similar work in the search phase, but does more work in the replace phase.

Perl is Huffman encoded by design.
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