I stand corrected. I changed my benchmark code to 
timethese
(-10, 
    {
        'tye'      => sub 
        { 
            $iter  = find_lances_tye   ( \%mechs, 5, 240, 10 );
            while ( my $lance = $iter->()  ) 
            {
                push @tye, join (",", sort @{$lance->{names}}) . "(" .
+ $lance->{weight} . " tons)\n" ;
            }
            @tye = sort @tye;

        },
        'holli'    => sub 
        { 
            @holli = find_lances_holli (5, 240, 10, keys %mechs );
            @holli = map { join (",", sort @{$_->{names}}) . "(" . $_-
+>{weight} . " tons)\n" } @holli;
            @holli = sort @holli;
            
        },
        'demerphq' => sub 
        { 
            @demerphq = find_lances_demerphq ( \%mechs, 5, 240, 10 );
            @demerphq = map { join (",", sort @{$_->{names}}) . "(" . 
+$_->{weight} . " tons)\n" } @demerphq;
            @demerphq = sort @demerphq;
        },
        
    }
);

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so it constructs the same data-structure in all cases and then I get 
C:\>benchmark.pl
Benchmark: running demerphq, holli, tye for at least 10 CPU seconds...
  demerphq: 10 wallclock secs (10.41 usr +  0.02 sys = 10.42 CPU) @  1
+.44/s (n=15)
     holli: 12 wallclock secs (12.23 usr +  0.00 sys = 12.23 CPU) @  0
+.33/s (n=4)
       tye: 10 wallclock secs (10.33 usr +  0.02 sys = 10.34 CPU) @  1
+.84/s (n=19)

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Pretty similar to your outcome. Thanks for the clarification.


holli, /regexed monk/

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