Perl 5_005.63
Pentium III 600b/256M running RH 6.2, Kernel 2.2.15 (1196 Bogomips reported)

Benchmark: timing 1000000 iterations of Grep, Max, Ternary...<br>
      Grep:  2 wallclock secs ( 2.38 usr +  0.04 sys =  2.42 CPU) @ 41
+3223.14/s (n=1000000)<br>
       Max:  5 wallclock secs ( 5.16 usr +  0.02 sys =  5.18 CPU) @ 19
+3050.19/s (n=1000000)<br>
   Ternary:  5 wallclock secs ( 5.13 usr +  0.00 sys =  5.13 CPU) @ 19
+4931.77/s (n=1000000)
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--Chris