To borrow a phrase from bobf, I "went all perlmonks on him". "Blah blah blah premature optimization blah blah micro optimization blah blah blah." I essentially suggested we throw it on the servers and see if it causes a problem.

One giant long-running company meeting later, and I'm staring at 20 minutes until it's time to go home for the weekend. Honestly, my curiosity got the better of me and I quickly and quietly setup a little Benchmark.

- but that's not the point of his post. It is about he being puzzled with why assignment of split results to two my-variables and returning those my-variables could be faster than directly returning the split results.

Which isn't. :-)

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