I think it holds true for any kind of string management. It's kind of why Perl exists in the first place, to take one bunch of strings and turn them into anothe

I think it holds true for any kind of string management. It's kind of why Perl exists in the first place, to take one bunch of strings and turn them into another, probably printing them out somehow. It stands to reason that the default use case of Perl is well optimized.