use strict; use warnings; use Benchmark q{cmpthese}; my @files = grep { -f } ; my $rcCopy = sub { my @content = (); foreach my $file ( @files ) { open my $fh, q{<}, $file or die qq{open: $file: $!\n}; @content = (@content, <$fh>); close $fh or die qq{close: $file: $!\n}; } return \@content; }; my $rcPush = sub { my @content = (); foreach my $file ( @files ) { open my $fh, q{<}, $file or die qq{open: $file: $!\n}; push @content, <$fh>; close $fh or die qq{close: $file: $!\n}; } return \@content; }; cmpthese (-60, { Copy => $rcCopy, Push => $rcPush, });