How can I speed up my Perl regex matching?

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Published on 2009-10-20T03:48:12Z Indexed on 2010/04/23 23:33 UTC
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I want to capture several text using the following regex:

$text_normal = qr{^(\/F\d+) FF (.*?) SCF SF (.*?) MV (\(.*?)SH$};

A sample of the string is like below:

my $text = '/F12345 FF FF this is SCF SF really MV (important stuff SH';

Can that be rewritten to speed up the matching?

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