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in reply to Re: 5:10: Why is this slower than 5.8.8?
in thread 5:10: Why is this slower than 5.8.8?

There's a big diference between 'common/not recommended', and almost 50% slower. And with all due respect to PBP, using three lines of shift instead of = @_ is just silly in some ways. To each their own.