Using a simple Benchmark example: 

$ perl -le'
use Benchmark q/cmpthese/;
my @data = map { join( "", map { ( "a" .. "z" )[ rand 26 ] } 1 .. 10 +
+ rand( 10 ) ) . "\n" } 1 .. 1_000;
cmpthese -10, {
    plus => sub {
        my @temp = @data;
        s/\s+$// for @temp;
        return @temp;
        },
    star => sub {
        my @temp = @data;
        s/\s*$// for @temp;
        return @temp;
        }
    }
'
      Rate star plus
star 336/s   -- -66%
plus 992/s 196%   --

$ perl -le'
use Benchmark q/cmpthese/;
my @data = map { join( "", map { ( "a" .. "z" )[ rand 26 ] } 1 .. 10 +
+ rand( 10 ) ) . "" } 1 .. 1_000;
cmpthese -10, {
    plus => sub {
        my @temp = @data;
        s/\s+$// for @temp;
        return @temp;
        },
    star => sub {
        my @temp = @data;
        s/\s*$// for @temp;
        return @temp;
        }
    }
'
       Rate star plus
star  334/s   -- -72%
plus 1211/s 263%   --

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It appears that \s+ is always faster than \s*.     YMMV

In reply to Re^4: Unsuccessful stat on file test by jwkrahn
in thread Unsuccessful stat on file test by bluethundr

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