NOTHING is faster in 5.10

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avar@cpan.org>

split optimizations

Handled by custom C code in pp_split. Will never reach the regex engine (see perlreapi.pod)

The benchmark

Benchmark results

The new split // is around 3x faster than it was in 5.8.8

The benchmark lies...

...unless you compiled with -DSTUPID_PATTERN_CHECKS

./Configure -A ccflags=-DSTUPID_PATTERN_CHECKS

split is rarely the bottleneck