# uname -a
SunOS host 5.8 Generic_108528-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R
#uptime #shortly before running the test
  9:41pm  up 103 day(s), 13:13,  131 users,  load average: 0.05, 0.07,
+ 0.11

Benchmark: timing 50 iterations of join, while...
      join:  2 wallclock secs ( 2.09 usr +  0.03 sys =  2.11 CPU) @ 23
+.64/s (n=50)
     while:  2 wallclock secs ( 1.87 usr +  0.04 sys =  1.92 CPU) @ 26
+.10/s (n=50)
        Rate  join while
join  23.6/s    --   -9%
while 26.1/s   10%    --

#Required more iterations for accuracy on this machine
Benchmark: timing 5000 iterations of slurp, sys...
     slurp:  4 wallclock secs ( 1.61 usr +  2.30 sys =  3.91 CPU) @ 12
+80.08/s (n=5000)
       sys:  2 wallclock secs ( 0.12 usr +  1.86 sys =  1.99 CPU) @ 25
+16.36/s (n=5000)
slurp 1280/s    --  -49%
sys   2516/s   97%    --
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perl -pe "s/\b;([st])/'\1/mg"