$ perl bm.pl
Benchmark: timing 10000 iterations of placeholders, quote...
placeholders:  3 wallclock secs ( 0.43 usr +  0.20 sys =  0.63 CPU) @ 15873.02/s (n=10000)
     quote: 16 wallclock secs ( 5.51 usr +  1.32 sys =  6.83 CPU) @ 1464.13/s (n=10000)