$ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 minime 1.7.20(0.266/5/3) 2013-06-07 11:11 i686 Cygwin $ perl -v This is perl 5, version 14, subversion 2 (v5.14.2) built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int (with 7 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail) Copyright 1987-2011, Larry Wall $ time /usr/bin/perl -e 'use File::Temp' real 0m0.469s user 0m0.358s sys 0m0.125s $ time /usr/bin/perl -e 'use File::Temp' real 0m0.438s user 0m0.249s sys 0m0.202s