performance Re: string not block Re: SPUG: interpolating into a string variable

[Brian Hatch]

> Borrowing from the foregoing (and also from the perldoc, thanks YS-T) I
> settled on the following, which seems to be the fastest (notably so) of all
> (and also arguably much safer than eval):
> 
>     $s =~ s/\$(\w+)/defined($subs{$1}) ? $subs{$1} : $1/eg;

Cool.

It's nice to have someone obsessed with performance on this list.

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