Package: perl-modules Version: 5.8.8-7 Severity: normal According to perl's own documentation, using $& in a program incurs a considerable performance penalty on every regexp in the progrma. So I was shocked to see that Text::Balanced uses this variable.
(Text::Balanced in turn used by recent versions of markdown, which are known to be significantly slower than older versions, which did not use Text::Balanced. And markdown is heavily used by ikiwiki, which I hate to see tainted by this far removed use of $& :-( ) -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages perl-modules depends on: ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction perl-modules recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- see shy jo
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