Perl 5.8.0 on Solaris gives me 3338748. Perl 5.8.6 on Windows gives me 6742212.
5.10.0 on Ubuntu 8.10 gives 451354452 B-) My thanks also to ikegami for the elucidation, but I am left wondering:

- what is it that m// is matching? The null string, presumably... so would that be different on the same machine at different times?

Answer: yes. 

victor@pan:~$ perl -e 'print eval(+\//+\//+\//)."\n";'
411098964
victor@pan:~$ perl -e 'print eval(+\//+\//+\//)."\n";'
436080468
victor@pan:~$ perl -e 'print eval(+\//+\//+\//)."\n";'
415780692
victor@pan:~$

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