> Remember that Perl was originally architected at a time when memory was at an extreme premium and CPUs were very slow.
How is unnecessary copying saving memory?
IMHO Perl just reflected the behaviour of C.
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And yet, today's runtime Perl implementations must somehow strive to accommodate all of this "old" source-code, as graciously as it possibly can ... without breaking any of its now-oh-so-old assumptions . . .
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More bla! Doesn't answer the question.
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Without some kind of citation or description of what you describe one must assume you're talking through your hat.
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