0.0232839584350586 my outside 0.0305099487304688 my inside #### use Time::HiRes qw(time); my ($i); my $start = time; { my $x; for $i (1..1e6) { $x = 1; } } my $end = time; printf "%s my outside\n", $end - $start; $start = time; for $i (1..1e6) { my $x = 1; } $end = time; printf "%s my inside\n", $end - $start;