[VCL-56] Add '-no_match_vars' to 'use English' in utils.pm

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: vcld (backend)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andrew Kurth
• Created: 16/Jan/09 14:18
• Updated: 08/Mar/12 20:09
• Resolved: 08/Mar/12 20:09

Description

utils.pm has a 'use English' call but doesn't specify -no_match_vars. I came across this in the English module doc:

This module can provoke sizeable inefficiencies for regular expressions, due to unfortunate implementation details. If performance matters in your application and you don't need $PREMATCH, $MATCH, or $POSTMATCH, try doing

use English qw( -no_match_vars ) ;. It is especially important to do this in modules to avoid penalizing all applications which use them.