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Great, the WP article is already detailing 5 common reasons: (emphasis added)

> It may be desirable for a Perl program to invoke a C subroutine in order to handle very CPU or memory intensive tasks , to interface with hardware or low-level system facilities , or to make use of existing C subroutine libraries.

Cheers Rolf
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