Hi, it's not misleading at all. *Every* operation in Perl has an overhead - including use strict. As the question was "does use strict have an overhead?" the answer is/was correct. I then went on to suggest benchmarking and mod Perl if speed was the critical issue and then additionally suggest reasons not to disable use strict and -w....as you reiterated....

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tachyon

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