#!perl -w
use strict;
use Benchmark;

my @ary = 0 .. 100;

Benchmark::cmpthese ( 10_000_000, {
		'assignment'	=> '$ary[1] = -1;',
		'splice' 		=> 'splice @ary, 1, 1, -1;'
	}
);
__END__
# Output
C:\test>192779
Benchmark: timing 10000000 iterations of assignment, splice...
assignment: 21 wallclock secs (19.65 usr +  0.00 sys = 19.65 CPU) @ 508931.75/s (n=10000000)
    splice: 56 wallclock secs (57.13 usr +  0.01 sys = 57.14 CPU) @ 174999.56/s (n=10000000)
               Rate     splice assignment
splice     175000/s         --       -66%
assignment 508932/s       191%         --