Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated at H:\dev\perl\perlmonks\bench.pl line 23. Benchmark: timing 10000 iterations of split_anonymous, split_simple, split_simple_quiet... split_anonymous: 24 wallclock secs (15.55 usr + 0.00 sys = 15.55 CPU) @ 643.00/s (n=10000) split_simple: 20 wallclock secs (12.23 usr + 0.00 sys = 12.23 CPU) @ 817.80/s (n=10000) split_simple_quiet: 18 wallclock secs (12.15 usr + 0.01 sys = 12.16 CPU) @ 822.57/s (n=10000) Rate split_anonymous split_simple split_simple_quiet split_anonymous 643/s -- -21% -22% split_simple 818/s 27% -- -1% split_simple_quiet 823/s 28% 1% --