in reply to Re^3: The Deceiver
in thread Why does a Perl 5.6 regex run a lot slower on Perl 5.8?

And since perldeveloper removes the "whatever"s from the string the regexp will fail in the last iteration. So I would not be surprised if most of the wasted time was in the last iteration :-)

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