Hmm, that was dumb of me. But as you point out, as long as we know it's working, the comparison is unnecessary anyways.

I'm much more intrigued that you're getting different results than I am. What version of Perl are you running? 

[~] $ perl -v

This is perl, v5.6.0 built for i686-linux
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2000, Larry Wall

Binary build 618 provided by ActiveState Tool Corp. http://www.ActiveS
+tate.com
Built 04:53:25 Sep 14 2000

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Update: Hmm. I can't get any consistency out of this benchmark. Out of the various machines I tried it on, the REx solution is about half of the time way ahead of the pack, and the other half they're all about the same. Weird. Eerie.

-dlc

In reply to RE: RE: (dchetlin: Benchmark fixes) 30 Spaces- 1 question by dchetlin
in thread 30 Spaces- 1 question by AgentM

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