I did this on two machines: an old dog, and a new burner. System 1: HP 9000 Model H50 (PA-7100, 96 Mhz), 256 MB RAM, HP-UX 10.20 

$ perl -v

This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for PA-RISC1.1

results: Benchmark: timing 1000000 iterations of Grep, Max, Ternary...
      Grep: 26 wallclock secs (21.98 usr +  0.17 sys = 22.15 CPU)
       Max: 33 wallclock secs (31.87 usr +  0.07 sys = 31.94 CPU)
   Ternary: 35 wallclock secs (33.29 usr +  0.13 sys = 33.42 CPU)

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System 2: HP9000 C3000 (PA-8500, 400 Mhz), 512 MB RAM, HP-UX 10.20 

Same version of perl

results:
Benchmark: timing 1000000 iterations of Grep, Max, Ternary...
      Grep:  5 wallclock secs ( 4.83 usr +  0.00 sys = 4.83 CPU)
       Max:  7 wallclock secs ( 6.77 usr +  0.01 sys = 6.78 CPU)
   Ternary:  7 wallclock secs ( 6.90 usr +  0.00 sys = 6.90 CPU)

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In reply to RE: Algorithm Efficiency vs. Specialized Hardware? by husker
in thread Algorithm Efficiency vs. Specialized Hardware? by Russ

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