Benchmark: timing 1000000 iterations of Grep, Max, Ternary...
      Grep:  5 wallclock secs ( 4.44 usr +  0.00 sys =  4.44 CPU)
       Max: 12 wallclock secs (12.42 usr +  0.00 sys = 12.42 CPU)
   Ternary: 12 wallclock secs (12.09 usr +  0.00 sys = 12.09 CPU)
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Win98, 96 MB RAM, AMD K6-350 3D processor
ActiveState Perl 5.005_03

(Nice to know it matched the Solaris machine in Performance :)

Update: So, Ol' Mister Sun/Solaris (see dempa above) thinks he gonna outperform my Windows box, huh? (Um, well...duh!)

So, I just closed everything I was working on, booted to DOS and reran the benchmarks. My results:

This program does not run in DOS mode.
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*sniff, sniff*