use strict; use warnings; use Benchmark qw(cmpthese); my @source = 1 .. 1000000; my @result = @source; cmpthese (-3, { for => '@result = test_for ()', map => '@result = test_map ()', mapf => '@result = test_mapf ()', forv => 'test_for ()', mapv => 'test_mapf ()', }); sub test_for { my @sqrt_results; for my $result (@source) { push @sqrt_results , sqrt($result); } return @sqrt_results; } sub test_map { return my @sqrt_results = map { sqrt $_ } @source; } sub test_mapf { return map { sqrt $_ } @source; }