There has been some talk of Encode possibly caching internally
"fast paths" for small (like one eight-bit cset to another)
conversions. But it was decided that we better get it first
working (and out of the door with 5.8.0) and only then try to
make it faster.
I won't comment more on the OO vs non discussion except to note
that method dispatch is slow in Perl, so that would tug the boat
the other way...
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