use strict; use warnings; use List::MoreUtils; use Benchmark qw(cmpthese); my @values = map {int rand 10} 1 .. 1000; for my $sub (\&UtilsM, \&UtilsH, \&Grep, \&Map, \&For,) { print join ("\t", sort $sub->(@values)), "\n"; } cmpthese (-1, { UtilsM => sub {UtilsM (@values)}, UtilsH => sub {UtilsH (@values)}, Grep => sub {Grep (@values)}, Map => sub {Map (@values)}, For => sub {For (@values)}, } ); sub UtilsM { return List::MoreUtils::uniq (@_); } sub UtilsH { my %h; return map { $h{$_}++ == 0 ? $_ : () } @_; } sub Grep { my %unique =(); grep {$unique{$_} = undef} @_; return keys %unique; } sub Map { my %unique =(); map {$unique{$_} = undef} @_; return keys %unique; } sub For { my %unique =(); $unique{$_} = undef for @_; return keys %unique; }