in reply to Why is Windows 100 times slower than Linux when growing a large scalar?

I can confirm this with ActivePerl 5.10.1.1006 on Vista 32bit. There seems to be a problem with concatenation somehow. However "x" operator seems to be fast: 
$string.= $teststring x $iter;

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