Michael G Schwern wrote: > It also means we can optimize it to just count the fields and not store an > array. And everyone loves optimizations! Irony of ironies, split() in scalar is already faster in 5.10.0 than m/.../g for the few common cases I've thrown at it, long or short string. That's without optimizations or even removing the @_ behavior. Imagine what happens when someone with more C foo than me optimizes the scalar context case to just be a regex count loop! -- I have a date with some giant cartoon robots and booze.Thread Previous | Thread Next