Update: Sorry, I know this post was a bit lame and didn't prove anything

I just benchmarked the difference between "glob" and "<>" and found very little difference (subsequent runs flip-flopped which was faster). If that's the case, then I'd prefer the glob('pending/*') over the <pending/*> call because of the awkward bare word. But then, thats just me. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Benchmark qw(cmpthese);

cmpthese(
    20_000, {
        '<>'   => sub { my @results = <pending/*>; },
        'glob' => sub { my @results = glob('pending/*'); },
    },
);

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and the results 
       Rate glob   <>
glob 7194/s   --  -0%
<>   7220/s   0%   --

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-biz-

In reply to Re^2: read directory by jbisbee
in thread read directory by Zcity

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