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<p>Thankyou [diotalevi]++. That is exactly the sort of answer I was looking for and it confirms my suspicions based on some fairly dodgey benchmarking.
<p>No matter how hard I tried to isolate the benefits of qr//'ing or /o'ing, those benefits always seemed to disappear whenever I attempted to combine one or more pre-compiled regexes with each other or with some non-compiled stuff. In fact, I sometimes detected a penalty from using pre-compiled regexes other than stand-alone, though the differences were too small to quantify with any accuracy.
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<p>Okay you lot, get your wings on the left, halos on the right. It's one size fits all, and "No!", you can't have a different color.
<br/>Pick up your cloud down the end and "Yes" if you get allocated a grey one they <b><i>are</i></b> a bit damp under foot, but someone has to get them.
<br/>Get used to the wings fast cos its an 8 hour day...unless the Govenor calls for a cyclone or hurricane, in which case 16 hour shifts are mandatory.
<br/>Just be grateful that you arrived just as the tornado season finished. Them buggers are <b>real</b> work.</p></font>
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