My results were as follows: 
Benchmark Info
==============

Benchmark: timing 1000000 iterations of Grep, Max, Ternary...
      Grep: 12 wallclock secs ( 9.85 usr +  0.01 sys =  9.86 CPU)
       Max: 40 wallclock secs (34.38 usr +  0.02 sys = 34.40 CPU)
   Ternary: 37 wallclock secs (34.76 usr +  0.02 sys = 34.78 CPU)
Y


Memory Info
===========

            total       used       free     shared    buffers     cach
+ed
Mem:        144172     139260       4912      88820      31684      52
+680
-/+ buffers/cache:      54896      89276
Swap:       128484        704     127780


CPU Info
========

processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 5
model        : 4
model name    : Pentium MMX
stepping    : 3
cpu MHz        : 233.322757
fdiv_bug    : no
hlt_bug        : no
sep_bug        : no
f00f_bug    : yes
coma_bug    : no
fpu        : yes
fpu_exception    : yes
cpuid level    : 1
wp        : yes
flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx
bogomips    : 465.31


Perl Version Info
=================

version 5.005_03 built for i386-linux


OS Info
=======

Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman)
Kernel 2.2.12-20 on an i586

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