in reply to Re: Nesting prepared DBI handles
in thread Nesting prepared DBI handles

Not yet:

"By default a reference to a new hash is returned for each row. It is likely that a future version of the DBI will support an attribute which will enable the same hash to be reused for each row. This will give a significant performance boost, but it won't be enabled by default because of the risk of breaking old code."

Please take a look at the DBI documentation