Perl Version: 5.005_03
OS/Hardware: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE, Pentium II 233, 98MB RAM, running many other things including X, Apache, MySQL... (the also running xmms didn't stutter one moment :)
Skript Output:

 Benchmark: timing 1000000 iterations of Grep, Max, Ternary...
      Grep: 13 wallclock secs ( 9.12 usr +  0.01 sys =  9.13 CPU)
       Max: 36 wallclock secs (26.21 usr +  0.02 sys = 26.23 CPU)
   Ternary: 35 wallclock secs (26.66 usr +  0.04 sys = 26.70 CPU)
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