This is answered in
Optimizing pattern evaluation in
perlretut:
If $pattern won't be changing over the lifetime of the script, we can add the //o modifier, which directs Perl to only perform variable substitutions once
It wouldn't make sense to use this optimization in the context you've shown - even if it were embedded in a loop, there is no variable being interpolated.
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