Re: [OT] Re: [performance/benchmark] printing techniques

[Doug MacEachern]

> It's not slower in 5.6. "$x and $y" in 5.6 gets turned into $x . ' and '
> . $y (in perl bytecode terms).

that's not new to 5.6.0, variable interpolation in ""'s has always turned
into a concat tree, though 5.005_03 is the oldest version i have handy to
check with.  and, this "$feature" can be quite expensive.