use strict; use warnings; use Benchmark; use List::Util qw /shuffle/; use feature 'say'; my $n = 10**7; my @sorted = 1..$n; my @random = shuffle @sorted; my $t0 = Benchmark->new; say sum_this(\@sorted); my $t1 = Benchmark->new; my $td1 = timediff($t1, $t0); say "sorted:",timestr($td1); my $t2 = Benchmark->new; say sum_this(\@random); my $t3 = Benchmark->new; my $td2 = timediff($t3, $t2); say "random:",timestr($td2); sub sum_this { my ($arr) = @_; my $sum; foreach (my $i=0;$i<=$#$arr;$i++) { my $x = $arr->[$i]; if($x>$n/2) { $sum+= $x; } } return $sum; }