I'm not sure what your final point is? Doing this:

cmpthese( -2,{
 list => sub { &list },
 shiftit => sub { &shiftit },
} );
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seems just plain broken, and I wouldn't have been surprised if it even made Benchmark roll over and die. You shouldn't be making any assumptions about what is in @_ in your outer sub {}, much less modifiying it.

Trying this:

use Benchmark 'cmpthese';
cmpthese(1, { tryit => sub { $save = \@_ }});
use Data::Dumper;
$Data::Dumper::Deparse = 1;
print Dumper $save;
__END__
$VAR1 = [
          1,
          sub {
                  $save = \@_;
              }
        ];
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shows that in fact, cmpthese's parameters are still in @_, and doing:

cmpthese 3, { tryit => sub { push @save, [@_]; shift } };
print Dumper \@save;
$VAR1 = [
          [
            3,
            sub {
                  push @save, [@_];
                  shift @_;
              }
          ],
          [
            $VAR1->[0][1]
          ],
          []
        ];  
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shows that your shift has blown them away after the first 2 iterations.

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