Good one, man. my $i does speed it up, now the ratio become perl:java:c = 27:7:5.

But use integer does not seem to affect the result, and it should not affect the result on a 32 bit machine, when integers are less than 10^6.

I also tried 0..1,000,000 as one post suggested, it slows down the whole thing.

I then became interested in the difference between your benchmark and my result. (I didn't suspect you cook the numbers and I don't, never, just as you should not suspect me.) So I ran your benchmark testing, and got: 
 
Benchmark: timing 5 iterations of int_iterate, iterate, lex_iterate...
int_iterate: 131 wallclock secs (130.94 usr +  0.00 sys = 130.94 CPU) 
+@  0.04/s
(n=5)
   iterate: 172 wallclock secs (172.63 usr +  0.00 sys = 172.63 CPU) @
+  0.03/s (
n=5)
lex_iterate: 137 wallclock secs (136.66 usr +  0.00 sys = 136.66 CPU) 
+@  0.04/s
(n=5)
            s/iter     iterate lex_iterate int_iterate
iterate       34.5          --        -21%        -24%
lex_iterate   27.3         26%          --         -4%
int_iterate   26.2         32%          4%          --

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I would believe this is due to my small mem config as I said in another reply.

But your data shows use integer speeds up the thing a lot, that part really confuses me. I don't think you are using 16 bit OS though. Did you compiled your perl yourself?

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