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