#!/usr/bin/perl my ($the,$fastest,$donut,$youve,$ever,$seen) = qw [ the fastest donut you've ever seen ]; sub joiner { my $x = join ('/', $the,$fastest,$donut,$youve,$ever,$seen); } sub interpolator { my $x = "$the/$fastest/$donut/$youve/$ever/$seen"; } use Benchmark qw [ cmpthese ]; cmpthese ( 1000000, { joiner => \&joiner, interpolator => \&interpolator, } );