hello,

i recently had to use $', so reading perlvar more carefully, i noticed it warns about using $':

The use of this variable anywhere in a program imposes a considerable performance penalty on all regular expression matches. See "BUGS".

...but in the BUGS section it states that:

Due to an unfortunate accident of Perl's implementation, use English imposes a considerable performance penalty on all regular expression matches in a program,[...]

now i'm confused :) ... i don't understand wheter use English; (i.e. $POSTMATCH) reduces performance or simply using $'.
thank you for your time!

:)))))

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