Yes, I was looking at the code for List::Util earlier today. In addition to the C implementatin of the Fisher-Yates shuffle, it includes the following "backup" in Perl: 

sub shuffle (@) {
  my @a=\(@_);
  my $n;
  my $i=@_;
  map {
    $n = rand($i--);
    (${$a[$n]}, $a[$n] = $a[$i])[0];
  } @_;
}

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Pretty gnarleous, IMO. Kind of like a hybrid between F-Y and Tanktalus's shuffler.

The C implementation of List::Util::shuffle is 10-20x faster than the Perl implementation. For the practical programmer: end of story. Still, to satisfy my monkly preoccupation with how many angels can lambada on the head of a pin, and more importantly, in order to reduce this dead horse to a thin protein film, I benchmarked the three shufflers: ta = Tanktalus's shuffler; lu = Perl implementation of List::Util::shuffle; rp = random_perm: 

N = 1000
    Rate   rp   lu   ta
rp 230/s   -- -10% -22%
lu 257/s  12%   -- -13%
ta 296/s  29%  15%   --

N = 10_000
     Rate   ta   lu   rp
ta 14.3/s   -- -27% -34%
lu 19.6/s  37%   -- -10%
rp 21.7/s  52%  11%   --

N = 100_000
      Rate    ta    lu    rp
ta 0.144/s    --  -92%  -93%
lu  1.75/s 1118%    --  -13%
rp  2.01/s 1302%   15%    --

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In reply to Re^4: A bad shuffle by tlm
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