On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 10:57 AM demerphq <[email protected]> wrote:
> You sure this doesn't make while /g matches go quadratic? Lastly I checked > /p still matters for while/g -- the COW stuff doesn't always kick in: Not > every string can be COWed. Iirc strings returned from <>/readline aren't > COWed. > I was recently made aware of another related issue: string from File::Map can't COW[1]. And given that they can be very very large that is a serious problem. I don't think PL_sawampersand is as useless as some people thought it was. Leon 1: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=167860
